About

Jennifa Chowdhury is a textile artist and researcher whose practice-based research investigates cultural translation, hybridity and diasporic identity through a British Bengali Muslim lens. Drawing on Islamic geometric design, Bengali visual culture and contemporary making processes, her work examines how pattern, ornamentation and material practices operate as sites of cultural negotiation and belonging. Through the interplay of light, shadow, movement and geometric structures, she explores the relationship between abstraction, memory and identity, informed by postcolonial theories of the third space and cultural translation.

Chowdhury holds a BA (Hons) in Textile Design from Nottingham Trent University and an MA in Textiles from the University for the Creative Arts. She is a member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University for the Creative Arts, where her research explores the role of pattern and ornamentation in shaping contemporary British Bengali Muslim identities.