A mass for you to untangle: Peony Gent on her comics and installation art

Between her ambiguous comics, gorgeous illustrations, installation art, and quilt making(!), Peony Gent is a renaissance multi-hyphenate. In this episode, she sits down with host Allan Haverholm to explain how they’re all connected, how she creates gaps for her readers’ interpretations to live in, and to declare her great love for Dungeons and Dragons.

Main image by Peony Gent, detail from “Two mice”.

The galleries below only cover the works discussed in this artist talk. You are strongly encouraged to visit Peony’s website, where you can buy her books and find links to her social media accounts.

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Works discussed

Earth (2016)

Nothing but memories, nothing without (2017)

Park bench Kensington (2019)

Wakefield walkbooks (2019)

• Download A Walk from The Hepworth Wakefield to Sandal Castle
• Download A Walk from The Art House to Wakefield Cathedral

Morning tide (2019)

Welcome to Dungeonland (2020)

For Sarah (2020)

K-pop stars as supermarket chains (2020)

RCA graduation exhibit

Further reading

• A report from Peony Gent’s 2020 House of Illustration residency (Archived snapshot of the original post, as House of Illustration has since become the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, and its website has been removed)
• Art Spiegelman’s Maus and *Persepolis* by Marjane Satrapi; two significant examples of the autobiographical graphic novel.
• Bog bodies
• Anders Nilsen, Don’t go where I can’t follow
• An episode of the Architecture Culture podcast, featuring Peony Gent talking about her Wakefield walk books
• That great battle at Wakefield during the 1400s
• Aidan Koch, Iris (installation)
• Oliver East, Ill architecture
• Lauren Elkin, Flâneuse
• Sophie Collins on the Poetry foundation
• Donna Haraway, The cyborg manifesto