She adopts a feminist stance and has stated her position to be that of "a spokesperson, especially for women artists, in a country that is essentially hostile to contemporary art.
At the ICA she staged exhibitions by Andy Warhol, Allen Jones and Christo, as well as feminist artist Alexis Hunter.
Kent and Matthew Collings have been described as "the parents of the popularization process having audiences approaching half a million each" of "the explosion of art into mainstream culture in nineties London.
In 1995, when asked about a suitable Christmas present for him (he keeps dogs), she replied: Eight years later Sewell commented in one of his articles, referring to a heart operation: She is also mentioned in the lyrics to The Turner Prize Song Art or Arse?
- You be the judge, written and performed by Billy Childish, on a Stuckists CD: The reactions to her mirror the divisions in contemporary art in Britain, and she is praised as a pioneer by Louisa Buck: Sarah Kent has been an energetic chronicler of the contemporary, hoofing off to the most obscure and inaccessible venues long before it became fashionable for art to be exhibited in unusual places, and championing both young artists and writers at the beginning of their careers ... on television and radio she is often pitched against more conservative elements as an animated advocate of the wilder shores of today's art.