Darcy Whent

Darcy Whent (b. 2002, Wales) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bristol, UK. Working primarily in painting, drawing, and mixed media installation, her practice explores memory, motherhood, identity, and emotional conflict. Through an evolving lexicon of recurring motifs and autofictional storytelling, Whent constructs layered psychological landscapes that blur the line between personal history and collective memory.

Rooted in a tension between truth and fabrication, her work investigates how we internalise space, build emotional narratives, and revisit childhood from the shifting perspective of adulthood. Folkloric elements and her Welsh heritage inform much of her visual language, as do themes of domesticity, myth, and transformation.

Whent has exhibited in London and across the UK, with a recent solo exhibition The House We Built at The Mount Without (2025). She was shortlisted for the Freelands Painting Prize in 2023 and has participated in residencies including Steria Artist House (Italy), Emerge at Bath Spa University, and Pennywell Studios, Bristol, where she is currently in residence. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Bath School of Art.