Archive 2014-15
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:00:00 GMT
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (b. 1973, London) is a British artist whose practice intertwines performance, sculpture, painting, installation and video. Her performances and videos harness elements of folk plays, street spectacles, literature and multiple other genres. They generally employ troupes of performers – friends and relatives of the artist – and feature handmade costumes and props. Through improvisatory, irreverent and carnivalesque dramas, she has ranged across a panoramic range of subjects.
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd studied Social Anthropology at University College London before studying art at the Slade and the RCA. She has performed and exhibited internationally, and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2012 for ‘Odd Man Out’ at Sadie Coles HQ (restaged at Tate Britain, London, from October 2012 to January 2013). Other major performances include ‘The Green Room’, Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2014); ‘Home Made Tasers’, New Museum, New York (2011-12), ‘Free Energy Workshop’, Hayward Gallery, London (2011, part of ‘British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet’), and ‘A Tax Haven Run By Women’, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London (2010), and ‘The Snail Race’, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan (2008). Solo exhibitions have taken place at Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2014); Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (2012); Le Consortium, Dijon, France, (2008); and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland, (2007).