Darcy Whent: The House We Built

Artist Darcy Whent returns with The House We Built, a solo exhibition set within the atmospheric crypt of The Mount Without. This immersive installation gathers drawings, paintings, and mixed media works to form an imagined domestic space—one constructed not from architecture or objects, but from story, memory, and emotional imprint.

Whent’s practice explores how we internalise environments, how memory reshapes itself through repetition, and how personal mythologies are built. Over the years, she has developed a constellation of recurring motifs—half-symbol, half-character—that weave through her works. In this exhibition, they appear with new clarity and presence, no longer simply referencing the past but actively inhabiting the present.

These figures, textures, and painted surfaces come together to evoke a psychological terrain: part childhood memory, part emotional reckoning. Rather than reconstructing a literal home, Whent constructs a house of feeling—a layered and intimate structure where truth and fiction blur. Installed in the crypt, the works take on a subterranean resonance, mirroring the complexity and depth of the memories they draw from.

The House We Built invites visitors into a space that feels both familiar and strange, lived-in and spectral—where what we remember begins to take on form.