The Artspace Group Show: The Supernatural
Monster Chetwynd
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Monster Chetwynd (formerly Marvin Gaye Chetwynd), the chosen name of the artist born Alalia Chetwynd, is a British Turner Prize–nominated performance artist. In her work, she re-creates historical cultural events with a shoddy, slapdash aesthetic, highlighting the gap between the real and interpretation. The narratives she explores run the gamut from the work of Karl Marx and Charles Dickens to Star Wars and the Addams Family to puppet-based plays riffing on Paradise Lost. Her work often blurs the line between restaging and copying, challenging our ideas about inspirations and co-option. The handmade props and stage sets for her performances subsequently have an afterlife as sculpture and installation work, imbued with the values of her performances.
Chetwynd was born in London in 1973. She studied social anthropology at University College London (UCL), graduating in 1995, after which she went on to study for a second bachelor’s degree in fine art the Slade School of Art, also at UCL. She earned her graduate degree in painting from London's Royal College of Art in 2004. Chetwynd formerly went by Spartacus Chetwynd, before changing her name again in 2013. Her work is in the permanent collection at Tate Modern, and she has been …
Monster Chetwynd (formerly Marvin Gaye Chetwynd), the chosen name of the artist born Alalia Chetwynd, is a British Turner Prize–nominated performance artist. In her work, she re-creates historical cultural events with a shoddy, slapdash aesthetic, highlighting the gap between the real and interpretation. The narratives she explores run the gamut from the work of Karl Marx and Charles Dickens to Star Wars and the Addams Family to puppet-based plays riffing on Paradise Lost. Her work often blurs the line between restaging and copying, challenging our ideas about inspirations and co-option. The handmade props and stage sets for her performances subsequently have an afterlife as sculpture and installation work, imbued with the values of her performances.
Chetwynd was born in London in 1973. She studied social anthropology at University College London (UCL), graduating in 1995, after which she went on to study for a second bachelor’s degree in fine art the Slade School of Art, also at UCL. She earned her graduate degree in painting from London's Royal College of Art in 2004. Chetwynd formerly went by Spartacus Chetwynd, before changing her name again in 2013. Her work is in the permanent collection at Tate Modern, and she has been the subject of solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions across Europe.
Born 1973
Hometown London, England
Lives and Works London, England
Education
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, England, 2004
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Art, University College London, London, England, 2000
BA Social Anthropology and History, University College London, London, England, 1995
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