Jennifer R. Wicks
Jennifer Wicks
Jennifer Wicks is a Glasgow based artist and art facilitator. She makes drawings, moving image, sound, and sculptures.
Jennifer Wicks (b. Preston, Lancashire) works with sound, moving image, drawing, sculpture, and photography. She is influenced by the subcultural practices of post-punk and experimental DIY culture. Cut-up techniques can be seen in her work which erase and interrupt to generate new meaning; sampling fragments of existing drawings, sound, film, or sculpture to create new works of art by reassembling. She investigates the relationship between sound and image, the materiality of film and remixes new and appropriated material. Her installations often explore sound and space and the intersections between the mediums of film and sculpture, the phenomenology of sound and image, and visualization of music. She composes scores for ensembles and moving image work, and visual scores for experimental performance. Collaborations include choreographer Emily-Jane Boyle and dancer Lucy Ireland, Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra, The Edinburgh Quartet, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, The One Ensemble, Marion Ferguson. She makes music with record label Contort Yourself
Collaborations include choreographer Emily-Jane Boyle and dancer Lucy Ireland, Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra, The Edinburgh Quartet, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, The One Ensemble, Marion Ferguson. She makes music with record label Contort Yourself.
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Jennifer Wicks trained in conventional music and completed her undergraduate degree in Media Production and Photography at Humberside University. After moving to London she took on a role as Manager/ Curator of a music photography gallery, working with Bob Gruen, Keith Morris, Terry O’Neill and Mick Rock, and then later as an editorial/commercial photographer. She then went on to attended Glasgow School of Art completing a Master’s degree. She was awarded a Leverhulme AiR (2011-2012) at Glasgow University and has presented work nationally and internationally. 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, CCA, Berlin, Germany, 2022; Towards Sound Festival, HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany, 2022; CCA Glasgow (2021), Technical Notes, Pathfoot University of Stirling (2022-2023). She is currently Artist in Residence at the University of Stirling's Art Collection and Norman McLaren archive.The artist works on community engagement projects and has lead art projects in Scottish prisons, drug rehabilitation centres (UK wide) and various community groups that support people facing barriers.