Artist CV

(b 1995GB. Lives and works in Edinburgh)

Kent uses drawing, textiles and installation to act as metaphors that reflect her doubts about our digital era. Her tufted rug works juxtapose colour, text and form and overwhelm the senses in a hands-on physical embodiment of ‘going viral’. She sees parallels between contemporary existence and the dominance of social media and the Internet, and the way her domestic rugs grow, morph and occupy more and more space. Kent’s drawings enable her to consolidate and work through multiple visual possibilities and formats that act as gestural maps for her large-scale textile works.

2019

Lazy Susan’s Sizzling Prism, Safehouse 1, London

Dig the New Breed, Garden of Reflection, Derry

Bastion, The Nerve Centre, Derry 

2020

Penultimatum, Copeland Gallery, London

Melancholia, The Freud Museum, London 

London’s New Contemporaries, The Hari, London 

2020

Freelands Foundation Painting Prize Nominee 

UAL Art Collection 

2020

BA(Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) 

2017

Foundation in Art & Design, North West Regional College