“A natural born star with a talent for performance and singing"

- Skin (Vocalist, Skunk Anansie)

Selected Work:

The Leap: How can the archival embodiment of pain challenge societal values of feminine attributes and hysteria? (07/08/2024)

Mary's MA research project (June-August 2024) researching female hysteria, the archival body and trauma, using the character Solveig from Peer Gynt as layers of texture for the understanding of dissociation and reclaiming emotional expression as a power.

Music used:

Original material - Mary Roswell

Subjekt.no er egentlig bare kultur-resett - FAENIHÆLVETTE (Mary Roswell edit with rights)

Dancers:

Emma Poyer

Mary Roswell

Click here to watch the video in a new window. The Leap begins at 14:44

Dreams and Incantations (2024)

Mary Roswell's original autoethnographical performance exploring her Norwegian Heritage, the traditional Bunad, christianity/religion and norse mythology/runes while expressing traumatic pain without explicitly saying what happened in a surrealist exploration of simulated nature worship. All music and performance material produced by Mary Roswell.

Photography: Elly Welford (ellywelphotography, 2024)

What a mess (2023)

A collaborative project with the students from Dance and Creative Enterprise (23/24) at NSCD exploring the dualities of tradition and modernity, femininity and masculinity, death and rebirth, danger/risk and safety, real and fake, embarrassment and humiliation.

Photography: Elly Welford (ellywelphotography, 2024)

MAGAZINE FEATURES

While going by the name Daphne, Mary got featured twice in the Nest Magazine's 19th issue

SYNESTHESIA VOL2
By Celeste Melling (2022)

Funnily enough, Mary who's on this magazine's album cover also has the condition synesthesia where she experiences colours, sounds, textures, tastes and smells when processing information

Darkness of the Night 2022
(Music Video)

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Commonly known; Mary's time at LAU was spent exploring sound and it's effect on emotions in the body by the use of sound frequencies and varied rhythmic patterns. She is also known to be making music in the genre of art pop, similar yet still original to Kate bush, Björk and Aurora.

Lavender Exhibition 2023

Photos by Laurelle (2024)

Darkness of the Night (music video) got exhibited at the Lavender Exhibition 2023 organised by the Leeds Arts Union. Mary did a show of original material for opening night.

Never Go Back (2022)

Never Go Back is available to stream on all music streaming platforms

Collaborators:

Guitar:

Ed Barnes

Drums:

Terry Boulton

Co-music producer:

Cameron Walker

All recorded video fotage:

Jake Smith

Inspector Gadget (2023)

Confidence and self-expression poetry performance (2022)

Poetry by Evie Hydie (2022)

Bærum Kommune Kulturstipend 2020

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