2019 | Jennifer Gathercole

Jennifer explores relationships between memory, loss, objects and place through the medium of printmaking. Her work speaks to a dialectic between old and new; forgotten and treasured; stated and unspeakable. Inspiration comes from oral histories, old, discarded photographs, archival material and her own current photographic images. In A Forgotten Landscape, a Heritage Lottery project in the Severn Valley, England, she engaged with local residents’ oral and visual histories to inform her practice, and a series of workshops.

Jennifer draws upon her study of sociology at Anglia Ruskin University and postgraduate research at London School of Economics which focused on the social representation of trauma and loss. Her practice incorporates an experiential reflective approach, informed by peer counselling and work in the UK voluntary sector with people whose voices have been marginalised.