JENNIFER CROUCH
Artist, researcher and art-science practitioner working in textiles, sculpture and image-making
CV

Portfolio overview:
Drawings
Paintings
Textiles
Ceramics
Prints
Workshops
Celestial Collections: bags and accessories

“Recorporealising MRI Data” PhD project:

MRI: physics and data

Phantoms

Art object as scientific device

Weaving patterns

Yarn wrappings // lab maps 

Body-loom assemblage

Woven-work

Research maps

Painted cartographies



Research and pedagogies:
A (sym)poetics of biomineralisation
Textile research methodologies


Exhibition, workshop & public engagement portfolio:
Membranes
Public engagement of science /Art-Science Workshops
Synthetic Biology workshops
The Clearing: A project from the future
Reitir
Arctic Circle Residency
Jiggling Atoms
Invisible Structures
Books


Commissions and personal work:

Embroidery symbols
Geology paintings
The Moss Crest Project
Flatland paintings
The Magic Calendar
The Infinite Landscape
Dissecting Room Drawings
Other ceramics
Radio Club
Sunk Season
Epecuen (mural/installation)

A Vague Inventory of Ailments and States



Contact

Email: jennifer.ap.crouch@gmail.com
Instagram 
LinkdIn



Biography —
Info
  1. 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. 
  2. 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. 
  3. They have published books on popular science and anatomical art. 
  4. 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.

Mark


Textiles


2024
Pleating




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.