Jer Crowle (b. 1978, Vancouver, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, working between the Pacific Northwest and Europe, including extended periods in Turin, Italy. His practice spans painting, printmaking, photography, design, and material-based installation, and is grounded in a sustained investigation of human perception, land stewardship, and the systems that shape cultural and spatial relationships.

Crowle began his artistic practice in his teens, attending the Langley Fine Arts School before continuing as a largely self-taught artist. From an early stage, his work resisted a singular disciplinary trajectory, instead developing through parallel engagements with visual art, design, and industrial process. This commitment to interdisciplinarity remains central to his practice.

At the core of Crowle’s work is an interest in how relationships—between people and land, systems and culture—are formed and perceived. His recent work engages federal land stewardship in the Pacific Northwest as a case study through which broader cultural, spatial, and systemic questions can be examined. Rooted in long-term personal history with the region, this focus treats the Pacific Northwest as a lived environment in which larger conversations around responsibility, governance, extraction, conservation, and collective perception become visible.

Crowle pursues discipline-specific outputs as a way to strengthen the larger narrative of his work. Painting remains a grounding structure, while printmaking, sculpture, industrial processes, and design are employed when the discipline or medium can more effectively articulate his work conceptually. He works hands-on in the studio and on site, frequently using tools and materials more commonly associated with industrial and construction environments.

In parallel to his studio practice, Crowle has maintained an active professional engagement in design across communication, industrial, and architectural contexts. He has worked as an artist and creative director alongside architects, contributing to projects involving public space, civic discourse, and urban planning. He is currently undergoing architectural training as a translational framework for material research within his studio practice.

Crowle’s work has been presented in exhibition, architectural, and public contexts, including Waterline at Salchetto; Time Space Existence with hcma; and the public project Confetti at Michael Phair Park. His work 35 Rings is held in the public collection of the City of North Vancouver at City Hall.

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