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 Projects, 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 their 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. More recently they have been making colourful mezzotints of gay animals and thinking about wildness.

At Cove Park, I will be working on etching plates – looking at homosexual and transexual behaviour across the animal kingdom and experimenting with different levels of visibility.