Exhibition: LINDER - The Return of Linderland.

Grundy Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery Touring present Linder: The Return of Linderland, a reconceived version of Linder’s landmark exhibition, Danger Came Smiling, that has toured across the UK since premiering at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2025.

The Return of Linderland offers an illuminating and very personal reflection of this iconic artist’s 50 year-long career. A selection of Linder’s trailblazing photomontages explores the range of her artistic practice, underscoring the experimental and feminist impulses of her thought-provoking work. Early drawings and ephemera explore Linder’s nascent development as an artist, tracing her artistic production to her now renowned visual style.

In collaboration with Grundy Art Gallery, the exhibition has been adapted, cut and pasted to reflect Linder’s heritage and influences. Rarely seen, atypical drawings by L.S. Lowry, of mannequins and dancers on loan from Lowry, Salford rewrite our understanding of this Northwest painter while a 1952 seascape from L.S. Lowry returns us to familiar ground speaking to Linder’s home on the Lancashire Coast. Brendel plant models on loan from the Oldham Gallery trace Linder’s early interest and fascination with the botanical world, flowers remain a central motif in her work. A series of Linder’s films showcase Blackpool’s cowboys, Manchester jack the lads, and Linder’s own bodybuilding. In punk paste-up style, a collaboration with Build Hollywood converts gallery walls into billboard size works, bespoke for Blackpool.

LINDER: THE RETURN OF LINDERLAND is recommended for audiences aged 16 and over. The exhibition includes depictions of nudity and images of a sexual nature.

More info on the exhibition here