Carl Gent is an artist and writer from Bexhill-on-sea.
They have exhibited their sculptures, songs, vehicles and printouts at Deptford X, Café Oto, Badischer Kunstverein, Istituto Svizzero, Flatland, the De La Warr Pavilion, ICA, Somerset House, Goldsmiths CCA, Wysing Arts Centre, KELDER, Jupiter Woods and the Museum of English Rural Life.
Felon Herb, an iteration of her ongoing manufacture of absinthe as art, was published by Kelder Press in 2022, and in 2021 All Us Girls Have Been Dead for So Long, the script to their climate-apocalypse musical extravaganza co-produced with Linda Stupart, was published by Arcadia Missa. The Balls of Alban, their pamphlet seeking to refictionalise the life of Cynethryth, eighth-century Queen of Mercia, was published by Monitor Books in late 2022.
She is a studio practice lecturer on MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University and are currently working on a body of research looking at how gay and trans animal life can depends upon technologies of recognition vital in combatting fascist and anthropocentric worldmaking.
www.are.na/carl-gent
www.kelderprojects.com/Felon-Herb-Carl-Gent
www.arcadiamissa.com/product/all-us-girls
www.monitorbooks.co.uk/books/the-balls-of-alban
www.gold.ac.uk/art/staff/gent-carl
www.jupiterwoods.com/exhibition/over-the-fallow-flood