About
Jen McGowan is an artist, educator, and caregiver situated in the unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver, Canada. In her interdisciplinary practice, she allows each project to determine the choice of medium and often repurposes the discarded material detritus of childcare. Her work currently navigates lived maternal experience and the socio-political systems that weigh upon it. She is particularly interested in how the exploitation of care labour persists because of its benefit to capitalist patriarchy.
Jen recently completed the Master of Fine Arts program at Emily Carr University. Her thesis work, Invisible Labour Loops, has been featured in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Art in the Open Festival, and was recently presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada conference. She previously earned a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.
She has over 15 years of experience teaching Animation, Film, and Art at a public secondary school.