Jamila Prowse

b. 1994, United Kingdom

Jamila Prowse is a self-taught artist whose practice evolved from her sick bed. She makes in order to process complex emotions and experiences around disability, autism, mixed-race ancestry and social isolation. Intuitively moving between different mediums as a form of play and to respond to fluctuations in her energy and disability; she hopes to return to art as a site of healing, imagination and resistance. Previous exhibitions and screenings include V&A, Whitechapel Gallery, Somerset House, South London Gallery, Studio Voltaire, Goldsmiths CCA, (London), Aspex (Portsmouth), Newlyn Art Gallery (Cornwall), NewBridge Project, (Newcastle), TULCA Visual Arts Festival, Ormston House Gallery, (Ireland), and Hordaland Kunstsenter (Norway). Her writing has appeared in Frieze, Art Monthly, British Journal of Photography and elsewhere.