Jennifer is interested in how mental states alter our engagement with reality, the way that psychological shifts can imbue seemingly banal everyday objects or even surface patterns with a kind of confused aura to hint at a melancholic undertow. Her fascination with the sub-conscious and our cognitive processes, explore the complexity of human emotions. Her work is predominantly painting, including having made a film and performance. Multiple ways of working allow her to explore the tension between immediacy and more procedural forms of making. Collage is the thinking process; painting is how images and patterns are determined that hint at a deeper significance. The artist’s own photography makes reference to the unending and overwhelming flow of images on social media, fashion in particular. Painting these is an attempt to make ‘fast’ images become slower and more captivating. This clash of the mass produced, the hand-made, the commercial image and the privacy of one’s inner visual world is central to the work. With regard to references beyond painting and narrative logic,  Jennifer is  drawn to cinematography, specifically the composition, how colour can determine a mood and pattern can trigger nostalgia.

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