Society Reproduces Doubt

Kent has described her art as sitting within the realm of ‘fibre and installation’, with current work concerned with language and the concept of personal doubt in the digital age. Using the traditional method of rug tufting, Kent upends the expectations of the medium through the incorporation of unsettling and ambiguous phrases, an acidic colour palette, and the use of 3D or unusual forms. Works such as Society Reproduces Doubt (2020) take their titles from words embedded within them; short phrases collected, shaped and honed by Kent over long periods of time. Though they begin as personal to the artist - reflecting her own specific struggles with doubt - they are intended to be open ended and enable viewers to attach or project their own meaning.

University of Edinburgh, Art Collection: EU5770