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Jamila Prowse

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. Prowse holds a studio at Studio Voltaire and was a studio residency artist at Gasworks from January to April 2021. She has written for Frieze, Dazed, Elephant, GRAIN, Art Work Magazine and Photoworks.

On the occasion of his show at Anonymous Gallery, the artist speaks to Jamila Prowse about using art to attend to personal and collective loss

BY Jamila Prowse AND Abbas Zahedi | 29 JUN 22

Jamila Prowse surveys how artists, writers and critics become their own unofficial biographers when grappling with illness and misdiagnosis

BY Jamila Prowse | 25 NOV 21

Jamila Prowse reflects on how disability-inclusive resources can create a better art world

BY Jamila Prowse | 03 NOV 21

Jamila Prowse speaks to the artists about their approach to new, aquatic temporalities, from ocean to darkroom, as they have separate shows at Birmingham’s Eastside Projects

Jamila Prowse explores the theories behind the collective’s approach to disability justice and commitment to ‘doing nothing or, at the very least, as little as required of us’

BY Jamila Prowse | 02 JUL 21

At Cooke Latham Gallery, the artist replicates a doctor’s surgery, using mythic creatures as a metaphor for living with polycystic ovary syndrome

BY Jamila Prowse | 10 MAY 21

Jamila Prowse talks to three spaces - HOME, la Sala and Quench - about resisting cultural hegemony and the need for foundational support, access and equity in the arts

BY Jamila Prowse | 04 FEB 21

A new commission at Cell Project Space confronts questions about our complicity in the gentrification of our cities 

BY Jamila Prowse | 08 DEC 20

At Project Native Informant, London, the artist asks how one person’s labour is exploited to facilitate another person’s leisure 

BY Jamila Prowse | 16 NOV 20