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.
2019-2024 Embroidered Symbols
A synthesis of mathematical, alchemical and astrological symbols. The objective of this work was to locate mathematical descriptions of the movements of the planets and chemical formulas as emergent with cultural/spiritual/magical ways of framing the cosmos and vice versa.
2023-2024 Quilting
Exploraitons of texture and surface in quilted samples and experiments exploring waveforms and topology. Many of these samples were assembles into small bags and sold ath LGBTQ centre in Blackfriars.
2018-2023 PhD: Recorporalising MRI data
A main aspect of my doctoral research was embodied practice and the analogue digital interface in MRI which you can learn more about in the website section called: Recorporalising MRI data
2019 WEAVING DISINTEGRATION
Weaving during cancer recovery. Warp threads snap and break apart.
2013 What I See
And with them, or after them, may there not come that even bolder adventurer — the first geolinguist, who, ignoring the delicate, transient lyrics of the lichen, will read beneath it the still less communicative, still more passive, wholly atemporal, cold, volcanic poetry of the rocks: each one a word spoken, how long ago, by the earth itself, in the immense solitude, the immenser community, of space.
2011 The Oxidation of Bile
And with them, or after them, may there not come that even bolder adventurer — the first geolinguist, who, ignoring the delicate, transient lyrics of the lichen, will read beneath it the still less communicative, still more passive, wholly atemporal, cold, volcanic poetry of the rocks: each one a word spoken, how long ago, by the earth itself, in the immense solitude, the immenser community, of space.