Dr. Jennifer Crouch is an art-science practitioner working in sculpture, textiles, drawing, installation and painting. They have a background in physics and medical illustration and experience working as an artist in scientific laboratories, on expeditions in the Arctic Circle, with communities, and as part of local and international art projects.
Jennifer has guest lectured at universities across the UK and Europe, teaches textile arts at Morley College London, is fashion lead at NewVic FE College, and is an associate lecturer on the MA in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins, London.
They have published books on popular science and anatomical art.
Jennifer is a queer slug and keen gardener interested in liminality, queer feminist science studies, LBGTQ culture & experiences, textiles, magic and the absurdity of the cosmos.
Jennifer Crouch is an artist, teacher, researcher and maker. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth and artist in residence at UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI).
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).
