About
Linda is a visual artist and musician who creates artwork inspired by the human body, science, and culture using photography, video, sound, music, drawing, print and installation. Her work is developmental and research based and draws upon a range of influences from modern culture and politics, art history, conservation, and music. She is also a musician and brings in elements of music into her work. A fundamental element of her work is her process which uses action, exploration, and narrative. She often uses a narrative framework of her own or an iconic myth or story. For example, Batman eyes, which is both a portrait of a teenager and an exploration of personal identity from the viewpoint of a teenager was created by involving her in the process.
The human form, particularly the face, has been a lifelong long obsession. Since the late 1990′s she has examined the themes of emotion and identity through self representation. She has also included her close family in this exploration.
Representation of longing, loss, dislocation, desire, reverie, and joy and notions of female identity and sexuality have been central to her work. Her photographic image sequences are carefully set up installations using herself, her close family and friends which form a key part of the narrative. She has worked with scientists from the University of Edinburgh on a project about ageing and has recently supported the drama, Dementia Diaries with an exhibition from her recent video – Nine Thoughts: a riff on fragmentation and loss. The White Series is her response to the theme of sexuality, transience and spirituality in a series of images linked together by the theme of the colour white and the female body.
She is currently working on a body of work which is concerned with man, nature and transience using sound (field recordings of nature), music, and poetry as well as photography and video.
