Sorcha Dallas

It’s good to see the Baltic giving some exposure to Newcastle-based artists in authorizing Ant Macari to infiltrate the very walls themselves with his site specific drawings. Macari plays with our western tendency to read image sequences in the same left to right order as we read text. It’s a technique common in medieval devotional art, brought up-to date in our graffiti-scrawled urban environments of subliminal symbolism. A parallel tactic subversion can be seen in the retrospective of collages by Linder (work pictured). Made famous for her cover design for the Buzzcocks’ debut single Orgasm Addict, Linder continues to undermine domestic conventions with image concoctions combining soft porn and doing the dishes.