Marion Coutts

Marion Coutts is an artist and writer. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Coutts has held a number of Fellowships, including the Kettle’s Yard Fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge and the Momart Fellowship, Tate Liverpool. Her first book, The Iceberg won The Wellcome Book Prize in 2015. In 2016 she was a Cove Park Literature Fellow, Cove Park, Scotland and in 2018, the recipient of The Islands Arts Writing Residency, Fogo Island, NL. Public talks and conferences include, Care and Waiting: Critical Poetics, Nottingham Trent University 2021 and Sculpture as Fieldwork, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds 2019. Coutts has written for 1843 magazine, the Guardian and the Observer. Her second book What Did the Deep Sea Say? will be published by Vintage in 2025. She is a Reader in Art at Goldsmiths and lives in London.