Making From the Sick Bed and Practicing Alongside Interdependent Care Networks is a talk and workshop led by artist and writer Jamila Prowse, exploring how disabled artists adapt their practices when illness makes traditional forms of making inaccessible. Drawing on her own lived experience of being intermittently bed bound, the event combines research, personal testimony, and practical resources on sustaining an artistic practice through care, imagination, and access adjustments.

The session is free to attend and will be held on Zoom. To book, please register here, or contact info@artworkassociation.org

Jamila Prowse is an artist and writer, propelled by curiosity and a desire to understand herself through making. Informed by her lived experience of disability, mixed race ancestry and the loss of her father at a young age; her work is research driven and indebted to Black feminist and crip scholars. She is an active participant in a rich and growing contemporary disabled artistic community and has been ongoingly researching, programming and creating around cripping the art world since 2018. Self taught, Jamila is drawn to experimenting with a multitude of mediums in order to process her grief and radical hope.

Viewing her practice as grief work, Jamila uses visual art making as a way to process complex family histories, loss, trauma and the isolation of being a bedbound, disabled, autistic person. Often incorporating oral histories into the conception of her works; the location of voice is vital in her explorations. She embeds creative access adjustments from the outset of each project – seeing access as a method of artistic articulation.

She is currently articulating through moving image, painting, photography, textiles and performance. Previous exhibitions and talks include V&A, Somerset House, South London Gallery, Studio Voltaire (London, UK), TULCA Visual Arts Festival, (Galway Ireland), Ormston House Gallery, (Limerick, Ireland), and Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen, Norway). Her writing has appeared in Frieze, Art Monthly, British Journal of Photography and elsewhere.