Sarah-Jane Crowson

Poet · artist · practitioner-researcher

A working collage: a Victorian bureau overgrown with ferns, ivy, moss and orchids in near-darkness. At its centre a gilt frame holds misted glass, in which a pale-gowned figure with a bloom for a head stands beside an open sewing box. A magenta thread trails from beneath the frame into the foliage. — Botanica: installation images to follow.

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I use practice-as-research and data physicalisation to create participatory interventions within institutional and algorithmic systems, placing lived experience beside institutional data, in dialogue.

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Four connected projects asking what representation preserves, what it leaves out, and how people and living systems might speak back.

Critical spatial
practice Minor
Deities To be preserved is not a synonym for free. Participatory consultations Regulated Instruments Data is not a synonym for truth. Critical data visualisation Botanica(growing) Is categorisation a synonym for containment?

Ten illustrated birds perch among the branches of an engraved tree, with labels showing unequal numbers of research papers and a surrounding cloud of bird names.

Interactive visual essay Ghosted Birds Attention is not a synonym for importance. An interactive, research-led visual essay exploring how scientific attention shapes what we know about the natural world. Combining ornithological data, illustration and participatory design, Ghosted Birds makes inequalities in scientific research visible — and invites readers to question the values behind them. Explore the full interactive essay