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) is an interdisciplinary artist creating durational installations, audiovisual performances, sound art, and creative-critical writing. She enquires into the complexities of memory, language, and states of being through experimental techniques, emphasising light, time, and sound. Using 16mm film, reappropriated materials, and custom light-to-sound instruments, she examines the materiality of sound and image, media archaeology, and the influence of technology on memory.
Her solo live performances explore temporal dynamics, chance, and the mechanics of sound. Focusing on industrial noise and intersecting with sample culture, cut-up techniques, and expanded cinema, she examines the interplay between performance and liveness while addressing the limitations of the material film-sound system. Using modified 16mm projectors, contact mics, and multiple guitar effects pedals she crafts immersive, layered, and dissonant sound and visual installations.
She has training in conventional music and holds an MLitt in Fine Art Practice (Glasgow School of Art) and an MSc in Sound Design and Audio-Visual Practice (University of Glasgow). She has received a Leverhulme-funded artist residency at Glasgow University (2011-2012) and was Artist in Residence at the University of Stirling (2022), working with the Norman McLaren archive. Her recent projects span international exhibitions and festivals.
She makes music with WOMEN’S HOUR (Wicks and Murray CY). LP released on L.I.E.S. Records, December 2023.
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.