Carle Gent

Carle Gent is an artist and writer from Bexhill-on-sea.

She has exhibited her sculptures, songs, vehicles and printouts at Glasgow Women’s Library, Deptford X, Café Oto, Badischer Kunstverein, Istituto Svizzero, Flatland Projects, the De La Warr Pavilion, ICA, Somerset House, Goldsmiths CCA, Wysing Arts Centre, KELDER, Jupiter Woods and the Museum of English Rural Life.

Much of their work has previously sought to refictionalise the life of Cynethryth, eighth-century Queen of Mercia through a range of amateur dramatics, tabletop gaming, self-publishing cesspits and the parading of decapitated kings in community carnivals.

Together with Kelechi Anucha she investigated the girly and divine links between folk and church song, and her ongoing collaborative practice with Linda Stupart has given birth to a range of live, published and exhibited restagings of the 1990s video game Ecco the Dolphin.

Their pamphlet, The Balls of Alban, was published by Monitor Books in 2022 and their book Felon Herb – outlining the ongoing production of absinthe as art – was published by Kelder Press, also in 2022.

She is currently pursuing a practice-based DPhil in Fine Art at the Ruskin, Oxford creating a creative-critical bestiary that looks at how we can use artmaking to meaningfully expand our recognition of the queer and internal lives of nonhuman creatures?