As a video artist, Martyn’s designs have appeared in works that have been presented at Melbourne Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Ten Days on the Island, and Dance Massive. He has worked with the following companies and creators; Brian Lipson, James Saunders, Tasdance, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Stuck Pigs Squealing, Arena Theatre Company, Is Theatre, Kelly Ryall, Luke George, Dancehouse, Stompin, Tania Bosak, Nicola Gunn, The Rabble, Paula Lay and Lara Thoms and Samara Hersch. He was the recipient of a Victorian Green Room Award for the video design on The Harry Harlow Project in 2009, a work undertook out a national Mobile States tour in 2011.
Martyn Coutts' live video art is the show's highlight. Saunders' performance is ghosted in black-and-white projection, the images warped to create a sense of disorienting isolation. They also suggest that, in Harlow's lab, the observer and the observed are linked in a destructive dance.

Reviews of work:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/11/29/1259429301627.html

But while Harlow’s lot is to be eternally caged with his own demons, Saunders has ensured that the production itself is not the result of a single vision—rather, much of the work’s shape is defined by his collaborators. Martyn Coutts and Kelly Ryall provided live video and aural components to Saunders’ solo performance, where projected monkey footage and fascinating sequences wherein Harlow engages with ghostly doubles of himself or his shadow offered some of the most striking moments.

http://www.realtimearts.net/article/95/9762

Martyn Coutts’ video design is unobtrusive yet breathtakingly effective, conjuring heartrending phantom monkeys and parallel versions of Harlow himself.

http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/reviews/performing-arts/the-harry-harlow-project-185368

The stage becomes a slapstick simulacra of Harlow's psyche, with some deft video work by Martyn Coutts and a subliminally disturbing score by Kelly Ryall framing a bravura performance by Saunders.

http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-harry-harlow-project.html

Video designer Martyn Coutts’ backdrop – a projected suburban kitchen subtly micro-shifting in its viewpoint and slowly drifting to our left, is used to great effect. First presaging then showing a tragic delivery using a simple figure silhouette in a doorway in-filled with crackling pre-digital television static-screen patterns that eventually consume the tableau. Arts Hub

http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/reviews/performing-arts/apocalypse-bear-trilogy-179408