Jameisha Prescod

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Jameisha Prescod FRSA is a multidisciplinary artist, journalist and writer from South London. With work grounded in a research-based practice, Jameisha explores how culture, identity, black history and colonialism influence the way illnesses are experienced.

I am a London-based multidisciplinary artist driven by the power of authentic human stories about disability and illness. My art is grounded in a research-based practice that explores how how disability, illness and healthcare intersect with black history, culture, identity and colonialism. More recent work has focused on Afro-diasporic responses to health and ancestral memory. By combining moving image, documentary, photography and digital art with poetry and essay writing, my work reimagines how disabled stories can be archived in more experimental ways. I am now set to expand my artistic practice to textiles in my creative storytelling.

My objective as an artist is to acknowledge the role of the disabled body in artistic spaces. I endeavour to include this ethos in all of my work. Reflecting on the human body in relation to illness is the creative thread that weaves all of my work together.