A Tax Haven Run By Women is an installation of sculptures and costumes made by Chetwynd that she uses for live performances. These imagine an anarchic game-show style competition between two teams, 鈥榃omen Who Refuse to Grow Old Gracefully鈥�, inspired by the actor and singer Mae West, and 鈥楾he Oppressed Pur茅e鈥�. The teams compete via a dance-off for a ride to a tax haven (a place with very low tax for foreign investors). They travel in the Catbus, a character from Hayao Miyazaki鈥檚 animated film My Neighbour Totoro (1988). Meanwhile, other performers act as a male cult leader, and seals, controlling the soundtrack.

Chetwynd鈥檚 performances and costumes are absurd, irreverent and spontaneous. However, her work often stems from research into economics, anthropology and maverick individuals. A Tax Haven Run By Women reflects on the similarity between cults and tax havens. Both tend to exist in remote locations isolated from regular society. Chetwynd says, 鈥楾he performance is weirdly a combination of goofy, dreamlike Mae West women running a tax haven which is this wonderful place where you do actually want to be, and the kind of scary arsehole cult leader gone wrong.鈥�

Chetwynd鈥檚 carnivalesque practice builds on traditions of performance from medieval mummer plays to avant-garde happenings. She often works with friends and acquaintances as performers. Chetwynd describes creating her handmade costumes and props quickly, driven by excitement. She says, 鈥楾his is often interpreted as 鈥榳ilful amateurism鈥�, but actually I would explain it as a preservation of the original sense of fun鈥�.