Photo: Tenner by Marion Coutts, 2003. © The artist.

Everglade is a new exhibition of work by acclaimed artist Marion Coutts and is on display at the Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham until February 28.

Born in Nigeria, Marion studied in Scotland and, following a period living in Europe as a musician, now lives and works in London.

Having undertaken a year as artist-in-residence at Tate Liverpool between 2000 and 2001, in 2003 she took up the prestigious artist fellowship at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge.

Photo: Everglade by Marion Coutts, 2003. © The artist.

At the heart of the show is Everglade, a major new commission that takes footage of typical British parkland and transforms it into an artistic vision.

A projector set up in the gallery shows a sequence of changing landscapes, which float in the centre of a screen as green islands surrounded by an empty sea of light.

Coutts’ work is well-known for its dramatic transformation of ordinary objects into highly inventive, yet minimal works of art, as can be seen in a series of sculptures on display at Angel Row.

Photo: Sibyl by Marion Coutts, 2001. © The artist.

Described as 'Magic Minimalism', Tenner features a thousand pennies stacked in a single solid column making a rod 1.65 metres high.

Some Enchanted Evening constructs a night sky-scape out of gold wedding rings on jeweller's velvet, while in Target Nebula a perforated archery target is transformed to resemble an exploded star-mass.

Everglade was commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in association with Angel Row Gallery and firstsite and supported by the National Touring Programme of Arts Council England.