What happened when artist Linder took a scalpel to Laura Bailey?

Since first coming to prominence with her collage for the sleeve of Buzzcocks’ 1977 single “Orgasm Addict”, which spliced an image of a naked female torso with an iron pinched from an Argos catalogue, Linder Sterling (who goes simply by the name Linder) has become known as one of the art world’s foremost provocateurs. Her irreverent photomontages – in which glossy images of glamorous women and nude pin-ups are juxtaposed with banal household appliances or concealed by blooming…