Artist CV
Artist's statement
(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.Group exhibitions
- 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
Awards & residencies
- 2020
- Freelands Foundation Painting Prize Nominee
Collections
UAL Art Collection
Education
- 2020
- BA(Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL)
- 2017
- Foundation in Art & Design, North West Regional College