Marion coutts biography

Marion Coutts

British artist and musician (born 1965)

Marion Coutts

Born1965 (age 59–60)

Nigeria

NationalityBritish
Known forFilm, video, sculpture, installation, books
Notable workThe Iceberg: A Memoir
SpouseTom Lubbock
Musical career
GenresPost-punk
Instrument(s)Vocals, trumpet, percussion
Years active1986–1995
LabelsDemon Radge, Konkurrel, Alternative Tentacles

Musical artist

Websitemarioncoutts.com

Marion Coutts (born 1965) is a British sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, author, and musician, known for her work as an installation artist and her decade as frontwoman for the band Dog Faced Hermans.[1] In 2014 she published her critically acclaimed memoir, The Iceberg.[2]

Early life

Marion Coutts was born in Nigeria and raised in the United Kingdom. Her parents were Salvation Army ministers with whom she traveled extensively.[3] The church they attended had a strong musical tradition that encouraged young girls to play brass instruments,[4&

Marion Coutts author biography, plus links to books by Marion Coutts.

Marion Coutts

Marion Coutts is an artist and writer. She works in sculpture, film and video and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, including the Foksal Gallery, Warsaw; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; and the Wellcome Collection, London. She has held fellowships at Kettle¹s Yard, Cambridge and Tate Liverpool. She is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. She lives in London with her son. This is her first book.

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    These are busy times for the writer and artist Marion Coutts. Her first novel, The Iceberg, which was published in 2014, has proved a runaway success. It was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and won the Wellcome Book Prize. And this month Coutts is exhibiting at Tintype gallery in Islington, her first solo presentation in eight years.

    The show presents an entirely new body of work by the artist including installation, sculpture, photographs, text, and, for the first time in Coutts’s career, drawings. One work, a large-format photograph entitled Library (2017), is an image of shelves strewn with books and bathed in light. The work hints at the very personal nature of the exhibition for it portrays a section of the art library of her late husband, the revered art critic Tom Lubbock.

    His death in 2011, following a three-year battle with cancer, was the inspiration behind The Iceberg. The title of the show is also taken from Coutts’s memoir, “[It] comes from a phrase I wrote in the book, ‘Seeing is active, it is an action

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