Kettle’s Yard Artist Fellows: Marion Coutts, Claude Heath
27 September – 2 November 2003
The Kettle’s Yard Artist Fellowship was one of the longest standing and most sought-after artist residencies in Britain, offering artists a sabbatical year to pursue their own work in Cambridge.
In 2003 the incoming artist fellow Marion Coutts exhibited alongside outgoing fellow Claude Heath.
Marion Coutts showed recent work involving sculpture and the moving image. Coutts makes laconic, visionary pieces that shift everyday objects – coins, rings, skittles, satellite dishes – into a mythic dimension. Among the new work was Money (2003), an installation of massed pennies apparently breeding on the gallery floor, and Target Nebula (2003), a used archery target transformed to resemble an exploded star mass. Also shown was the short film epic (2000), in which a sculpture of a horse is carried by human bearers through the streets and gardens of Rome. Marion Coutts was resident at St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Claude Heath was resident at Christ’s College, and showed his continuing enquiries into the bridge between perception and depiction. During his time in Cambridge he worked with the University’s aerial photography and astronomy departments, the moving image studio and The Print Studio, Cambridge. He presented a large-scale wall drawing derived from studies of stereoscopic aerial photographs of Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis.
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