ABOUT
Dr. Jennifer Crouch has a background in physics and postgraduate training in medical illustration. They have worked as an artist in several labs, and scientific environments such as the London Centre for Nanotechnology, St George’s Anatomy Department, and the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI). Their art-science practice has taken them to fishing towns in Iceland developing workshops that make bioplastics from local waste materials, and on tall ships in the Arctic Circle mapping magnetic fields through drawing. They are a qualified educator which feeds into their practice as a public engagement professional mainly through interactive events and workshops ran as part of Jiggling Atoms and through the writing of popular science and anatomical drawing books. Jennifer’s practice is dynamic and moves from painting to sculpture, to drawing, installation, electronics, ceramics, dioramas, workshops and painting.
Jennifer’s work investigates embodied epistemologies and how materials, sensations, objects and processes play a role in knowledge production. Using different practices such as drawing, sculpture and weaving helps them to focus on the distinct nature of embodied practices. Having worked as a medical illustrator at St George’s University, London, and studied physics and illustration (separately) at university their art-science practice is informed by scientific practice and expressed through fantastical synthesis mediated through multi-sensory experiences. They have taught at numerous universities including Central Saint Martins, UCL, Imperial, Northampton and Portsmouth. Their PhD project in Art and Science is archived on this website. It explores physical phenomena, corporeality, and the ways in which bodies and machines interface with each other (both actually and notionally).
Dr. Jennifer Crouch has a background in physics and postgraduate training in medical illustration. They have worked as an artist in several labs, and scientific environments such as the London Centre for Nanotechnology, St George’s Anatomy Department, and the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI). Their art-science practice has taken them to fishing towns in Iceland developing workshops that make bioplastics from local waste materials, and on tall ships in the Arctic Circle mapping magnetic fields through drawing. They are a qualified educator which feeds into their practice as a public engagement professional mainly through interactive events and workshops ran as part of Jiggling Atoms and through the writing of popular science and anatomical drawing books. Jennifer’s practice is dynamic and moves from painting to sculpture, to drawing, installation, electronics, ceramics, dioramas, workshops and painting.
Jennifer’s work investigates embodied epistemologies and how materials, sensations, objects and processes play a role in knowledge production. Using different practices such as drawing, sculpture and weaving helps them to focus on the distinct nature of embodied practices. Having worked as a medical illustrator at St George’s University, London, and studied physics and illustration (separately) at university their art-science practice is informed by scientific practice and expressed through fantastical synthesis mediated through multi-sensory experiences. They have taught at numerous universities including Central Saint Martins, UCL, Imperial, Northampton and Portsmouth. Their PhD project in Art and Science is archived on this website. It explores physical phenomena, corporeality, and the ways in which bodies and machines interface with each other (both actually and notionally).
