Marion Coutts was born on 1965 and 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.
18 Facts About Marion Coutts
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Marion Coutts was born in Nigeria and raised in the United Kingdom.
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Marion Coutts's parents were Salvation Army ministers with whom she traveled extensively.
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The church they attended had a strong musical tradition that encouraged young girls to play brass instruments, and at age 10 Coutts started playing trumpet for a large Salvation Army band.
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Marion Coutts' family lived in London and then Scotland where she stayed on to attend college, earning her BA in Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art from 1982 to 1986.
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Marion Coutts played trumpet and another woman played sax, and their first gig was a benefit in support of the UK miners' strike.
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In 1986 three members of Volunteer Slavery wanted to continue on as a more serious band, and Marion Coutts expressed interest in being their vocalist.
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Marion Coutts returned to the UK to concentrate on her art.
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Marion Coutts has recorded on releases with Dutch musical groups The Ex, Instant Composers Pool, and Dull Schicksal; with British groups Spaceheads and the Honkies; with American group God is My Co-Pilot on their 1994 Peel Session, and with cellist Tom Cora.
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Marion Coutts is known for her non-linear film and video style, often juxtaposed with sculpture to create immersive installations, sometimes with elements that invite viewers to participate in the work.
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In 2001's Decalogue, Marion Coutts emblazoned a set of tenpins with each of the Ten Commandments.
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Marion Coutts has enlisted Ex-Dog Faced Hermans guitarist Andy Moor to score many of her short films.
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Moor scored Twenty Six Things, a film that Marion Coutts comprised from artifacts collected by Henry Wellcome that she herself was never permitted to touch.
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In 1997 Marion Coutts began a relationship with fellow artist Tom Lubbock who wrote for the arts section for the British newspaper The Independent.
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In 2001 Marion Coutts began tutoring and guest teaching at Goldsmiths University, taking up a permanent position there in 2007.
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In 2009 after Lubbock's first brain surgery and rounds of chemotherapy, Marion Coutts began to jot things down in a series of Word docs.
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In 2012 Marion Coutts contributed the introduction to her husband's posthumously released memoir, Until Further Notice, I Am Alive.
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In 2014 Marion Coutts published the book The Iceberg, a "poetic and searing memoir" about her husband's death.