Cathy's Art Diary

Interesting exhibition at the Hayward Gallery as a retrospective of the artist Linder. I’d come across Linder’s work before and like what they have to say but hadn’t realised they had been on the art scene since the 1970s and designed a single cover for the Buzzcocks. I did find en masse that the work became a bit repetitive. The photo collage works were nicely broken up by installations in each room but I quickly got the message of the show. It’s a good example of how powerful one work by an artist can be in a show but it can become diluted when shown together. Closed 5 May 2025 Reviews Guardian Telegraph Evening Standard

Interesting installation at Charleston Farmhouse by contemporary artist Linder bringing together a series of objects alongside new and existing works to create a multi-sensory collage in dialogue with Charleston. Oh dear I didn’t make notes and don’t remember a lot about this show. I think I went in expecting it to be another response to the sister exhibition of Duncan Grant’s erotic drawings so I was a bit confused. Reading the webpage now I’m still a bit confused as it mentioned pieces I don’t remember so I’ll definitely be going back to take another look. What I do remember is a wonderful sense of fun and colour and her black and white collage photographs superimposing items of jewellery no nudes figures. Closes 12 March 2023 Review Guardian  

Interesting exhibition at the Redfern Gallery of works on paper by Surrealist Eileen Agar alongside five contemporary artists invited by the gallery to respond to Agar’s work. I must admit I’ve not been to the current exhibition of Agar’s work at the Whitechapel Gallery so am not that aware of her work. The works here, like the one shown, were mainly colleges often overlaying a cut out frame over another work. The five artists chosen to respond to her work were all women, LINDER, Lucy Stein, Florence Hutchings, Nadia Hebson and Oliva Fraser. I had only come across the latter before. I liked LINDER’s photo montage work combining female figures and objects particularly a work called “THE Sphinx” which superimposed a couple of classical heads over each other. I also like Florence Hutchings paintings of everyday settings. Closed 17 July 2021