Linder is renowned for her photography, photomontage, and confrontational performance art which boldly deconstruct gender stereotypes, libidinous desires, and transgressive acts. An active figure in the punk and post-punk scenes of 1970s and 80s Manchester, where she formed the band Ludus in 1978, she gained early recognition with her photomontage for the Buzzcocks single 'Orgasm Addict' which combined material sourced from an Argos catalogue and a French erotic magazine. Her work has continued to sharpen its focus on striking, playful, and political juxtapositions through imagery taken from a wide range of printed matter including pornographic magazines, dance journals, as well as cookery and horticulture books. In these composite images, faces are hidden behind blooming roses and household appliances, penetrative acts are concealed by montaged objects, and nude figures emerge from behind kitchenware. In this sense, her works play with unconscious associations between normative beauty and aspirational living; products and bodies are brought together, resulting in a tension between revulsion and seduction.

Linder was born in Liverpool in 1954 and lives and works in London. In February 2025, she opened a major retrospective called ‘Danger Came Smiling' at the Hayward Gallery, London which will then tour to Inverleith House, Edinburgh; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and Grundy Art Gallery until September 2026.