Jennifa N Chowdhury MSDC

Jennifa Chowdhury is a Printed Textile Designer | Artist. After graduating from Nottingham Trent University with a BA (Hons) in Textile Design, 1993. She worked as an in-house designer at a London studio and has regularly freelanced for several agencies in London before moving to Zurich where she received regular commissions before returning to the UK in 2010. Jennifa graduated from the University for the Creative Arts with a Masters in Textiles in 2019. She now divides her time between freelance clients and producing innovative surface design, exploring intricate laser-cut and sculpted textiles/artworks and commissions based in Winchester, Hampshire. Alongside pursuing a PhD at the University for the Creative Arts, her research aims to investigate contemporary expressions of identity and heritage through textile design, especially pattern creation.

She endeavours to evoke, re-imagine and communicate subjects of culture, memory and time connected in the visual representation and aesthetic consideration made through her work. Form is communicated through large scale site-specific installations, while pushing production concepts through applied digital technology, unconventional materials and scale. Other pieces are functional with decorative elements which support the large-scale installation works that create a visual of multiple and individual engagement. Jennifa wishes to question and challenge the possibilities and pre-conceptions of print and textiles and redefine these through the manipulation of material, pattern and colour.

Exhibitions:

East Street Public Art - Pattern & Ornamental Encounters - John Hansard Gallery, GO! Southampton, Southampton Forward, Art Asia

Hidden Landscapes - Light Box Gallery, August – September 2024

Reconnected - Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester, August 2024

Wonder: The Society of Designer Craftsmen - Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester, August – September 2023

Celebrating the Legacy of Textiles in Farnham - New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, June – July 2023

World Within Worlds 2023: Then, Here and Now - Rochester House, UCA Canterbury, July 2023

Transformations: The Society of Designer Craftsmen - Bankside Gallery, London, June 2022

Tansa 探査 Japanese Threads of Influence - Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, April – May 2022

Tansa 探査 Japanese Threads of Influence - Craft Study Centre, Farnham, January – March 2022

Tansa 探査 Japanese Threads of Influence, Making & Process - South Hill Park, February 2022

Making Matters - Lion and Lamb Courtyard, Farnham, November – December 2021

Excellence Exhibition: Society of Designer Craftsmen - Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester, August 2021

Wiltshire Creative Summer Open Exhibition 2021 - Salisbury Cathedral, July 2021

The Makers Art Collective - Oxmarket Contemporary, April 2021

Making Matters - Lion and Lamb Courtyard, October 2020 – November 2020

Wiltshire Creative Summer Open 2020 - Salisbury Arts Centre, 25 August – 10 October 2020

Festival of Crafts - Farnham Maltings, Farnham, November 2019

Connected - OXO Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London, September 2019

MA Graduation Show 2019 - UCA, Farnham, August 2019

Heathland Artworks - June – September 2018

Remastered - Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, June 2018

Alpona - Art Cafe, Winchester, February – March 2015

Die Tagesschau 2008 Kunst Zürich Oberland - Streiff Areal, Wetzikon, November 2008

The Colours of India - American Women's Club Zurich, Exhibition 2007

The Colours of India - Bibliothek Greifensee, Zurich, Exhibition 2006

Member of:

Handmade in Britain

Education:

PGR Student - University for the Creative Arts, 2021 - 2026

MA Textiles - University for the Creative Arts (Farnham), 2019

PTTLS - Northern Colleges, Wentworth Castle, Barnsley, 2012

BA(Hons) Textile Design - Nottingham Trent University, 1993

Experience:

Outside of her artistic practice, Jennifa has taken on a significant professional role in the art world. She currently serves as the Exhibitions Coordinator at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton. The role involves comprehensive coordination of exhibition planning to ensure the successful execution of gallery exhibition programmes.