Jennifer’s practice is rooted in sculpture and centres on an ongoing investigation into materials, their histories, physical properties, and underlying meanings. Through processes of manipulation, transformation, and re-presentation, she explores how materials can articulate ideas of memory, time, fragility, value, and loss. She is interested in the tensions that emerge when familiar materials are displaced from their original function and context, revealing both formal and metaphorical possibilities. Time operates as a persistent thread throughout the work—not only through the histories embedded within materials, but also through acts of accumulation, deterioration, preservation, and obsolescence.
She is particularly drawn to materials that occupy a precarious position between permanence and disappearance, or which bear evidence of changing technologies and cultural shifts. Previous works have incorporated newspaper ash, defunct lightbulbs, VHS tapes, carbon paper, maps, and metal leaf—materials that carry traces of use, redundancy, and transition.
Drawing is a key part of Jennifer’s practice, providing a space to experiment with ideas, forms, and materials. It often informs her sculptural work, creating an ongoing dialogue between two- and three-dimensional processes.
Interested in the intersection of material presence and absence, permanence and impermanence, she creates works (from large-scale installations to more intimate sculptures), which provoke curiosity and reflection, drawing attention to overlooked histories, fragile states of being and the passage of time that shapes both objects and experiences.
Jennifer studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and completed her MFA at Glasgow School of Art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has work represented in collections such as The Government Art Collection, UK and Simmons and Simmons, UK.
