Jennifer is a creator of illustrated dioramas; meticulous drawings; bright fleshy paintings; collaborations with scientists; interactive educational experiences, textiles and ceramic objects. Her work investigates the role of materials, objects and representation in knowledge production, having studied physics and illustration at university she considers the socio-political dimensions of scientific knowledge, to paraphrase Niels Bohr: science is not nature but what we can say about nature - science is a culturally and corporeal framed activity.
The fact that there is structure as well as genuine ambiguity and mystery in the universe, is something from which both physics and art thrive. Corporeal experience, gestures and techniques are points of reference in her work, as is the knowledge that exists between people, places and things.
Jennifer Crouch co-founded the Art/Physics collective Jiggling Atoms. She has worked with anatomists at Saint George's University, the Gordon Museum of Pathology, with entomologists at the Natural History Museum and physicists at Queen Mary University and UCL. She trained as a medical illustrator and is tutor for Anatomical Drawing at Central Saint Martins; a qualified teacher (QTS and NQT status).
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