SOCIAL FABRIC: JAMILA PROWSE, CRIP QUILT

Crip Quilt is a large-scale, patchwork, textile quilt translating the individual and collective experience of disability. With contributions from the National Disability Art Collection and Archive, three new collated oral histories with disabled artists of colour and the artist’s own lived experience; each square in the patchwork relays a snapshot of a disabled artist’s life. While making the quilt, Jamila found that stitching relieved symptoms of her disability, and her embroidered reflections took on a diaristic, confessional tone. Made on crip time, across 15 months, predominantly from the artist’s sick bed, the process became therapeutic.

Showing as part of Social Fabric.