Nicky Coutts studied for an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992 and went on to complete a PhD in Photography at the Royal College of Art in 2001, supervised by John Stezaker. Her work has been exhibited at public venues that include Kunsthalle Mainz; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hå gamle prestegard, Norway; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London. She is represented in the UK by Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, with solo gallery shows in 2008 and 2011. Over the past five years she has moved from working primarily with photography to film and video. Recent projects have been developed as part of residency and fellowship programmes at Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Germany; Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo; Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC), Northumberland, UK; Middlesex University; and Berwick Gymnasium. Writing, publishing and artists’ books also form an important part of her practice. She was formerly a commissioning editor of Make, Magazine of Women’s Art, an associate editor of Coil: Journal of the Moving Image and, as postdoctoral fellow in Fine Art, instigated a series of collaborative publications at Middlesex University under the imprint Confluens.