It is our humanity, and how the arts can be used as tools to meet and stimulate the psychological, emotional, practical needs and wants of our species that compels Linda to create. Linda produces works that seek to question and interrogate self and society.
The intersectionality of being an African, Caribbean, European, neurodivergent, disabled, queer person informs their cultural and political contexts. Linda’s multidisciplinary practice embraces new technologies, where sustainable and appropriate; traditional hand making skills; an ingenuity of generating workable ideas and finding fixes that is borne out of growing up West African; along with a sensitivity and awareness of the ethical use of materials. Linda is deeply concerned about waste and is keen to appropriate clean industrial resources, redirecting these to be used creatively in making new work, wherever possible. Through her work, Linda seeks to create value, bring joy, foster connection and participation with collaborators and audience, encouraging repeated interaction as an antidote to throw-away culture. The objects Linda makes often have an element of playfulness, are anthropomorphic and encourage interaction and delight between multiple senses as well as to engender responses to our shared humanity whilst celebrating our differences.