Jack Arts

Linder x Edinburgh Art Festival

JACK ARTS Scotland teamed up with Edinburgh Art Festival and iconic artist Linder to create some of her largest ever photomontage work on 48 sheet billboards to launch the 2025 festival.

Known for her bold, feminist artworks often created from layering archive images from magazines, newspapers and vintage pornography, including her famous cover for the Buzzcocks Orgasm Addict single – and performances including wearing a meat-dress to the Hacienda in the 80s (decades before Lady Gaga shocked the world by wearing one to the 2010 MTV Music Awards) – the artist has always played with themes of power and provocation.

These two new large-scale artworks came to life as Linder worked with our team to build up layers of supersized cut-outs featuring lemons, cups, flowers, swans and hands onto base artworks she’d created specifically for the partnership. The finished works were a celebration of colour, form and sexuality – boldly launching the 2025 edition of the Art Festival and its programme of exhibitions and events across the capital.