Monster Chetwynd

Monster Chetwynd, previously known as Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Spartacus Chetwynd, is a Turner Prize-nominated performance artist who works in performance, sculpture, installation, video and painting. Chetwynd’s video and performance works often involve handmade props and costumes, and employ the artist’s friends and relatives as performers. A keen gatherer of source material, Chetwynd’s influences are diverse and unpredictable. Just some names from a broad list of citations include Chaucer’s 'The Canterbury Tales', Doris Lessing’s novel 'The Grass Is Singing', Milton’s 'Paradise Lost', and Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 Studio Ghibli-animated 'My Neighbor Totoro'. Chetwynd remixes, restages and repurposes historical cultural events through the lens of these references, making her audience question the limits of interpretation, authenticity and originality, as well as the blurred line between fiction and reality. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...