Jamila Prowse is an artist, writer and researcher who uses her experiences as a mixed race, disabled person of Black parentage to understand and subvert barriers to working in the arts. She is currently working on a series of films tracing the history of her ancestry through her relationship with her late father Russell Herman, a South African jazz musician. She has upcoming exhibitions at HOME, London (July 2021) and and Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway (October 2021), was studio residency artist at Gasworks from January to April 2021 and has written for Frieze, Dazed, GRAIN, Art Work Magazine and Photoworks.