Jennifer Wicks
Jennifer Wicks is a Glasgow-based artist. Her practice spans drawings, moving image, sound, and installation. Her research-based practice demonstrates a continued interest in the interplay between sound and image to investigate the aesthetics of images, the materiality of film, the sculptural possibilities of sound and the visualisation of music.
Wicks’ installations often explore sound and space and the intersections between the mediums of film and sculpture, the phenomenology of sound and image, and the visualisation of rhythm. Wicks creates scores for her moving image work and visual scores for performance. She explores materiality and evolution through process and abstraction to reconsider the complexities of memory and how language is interpreted and experienced.
Jennifer Wicks is from Preston, Lancashire, North West England. She has training in conventional music, BA (Hons) Photography and an MLitt Fine Art (Painting) from Glasgow School of Art. She was awarded a Leverhulme-funded artists residency (2011-2012) at Glasgow University and has presented work nationally and internationally.
Throughout 2022 Jennifer was Artists in Residence at the University of Stirling's Art Collection specifically working with the Norman McLaren archive. Her practice is underpinned by collaborations with artists, musicians, and academics to continue a critical dialogue around the relationship between memory, sound, and image. Recent projects include Beyond Drawing, Zitadelle Spandau, Centre For Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2022); Towards Sound Festival, HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany (2022); Extended Compositions CCA (2021), Technical Notes, University of Stirling (2022-2023), Movement, A Culture on Campus Exhibition, Macroberts Arts Center (Jan - June 2024), Seuls Ensemble, French Street Gallery (March 2024).
Collaborations include New String Collective, choreographer Emily-Jane Boyle and dancer Lucy Ireland, The Edinburgh Quartet, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Jeremy Ward, Double Bass), The One Ensemble, GAIA DUO (cello and violin), Marion Ferguson.
She makes music with WOMEN’S HOUR (J.Wicks and Murray CY). LP released on L.I.E.S. Records, December 2023.
She has taught and created workshops within schools, on numerous community engagement projects and has led art projects in Scottish prisons (HMP Barlinne, HMP Shotts, HMP Low Moss, HMP Greenock), drug rehabilitation centres (UK wide), NACRO and various community groups that support people facing barriers.