jaz morrison
BORN EAST MIDLANDS; WORKS WEST MIDLANDS
Jaz is a writer and multidisciplinary (but mainly visual) artist, exploring themes of history, social space, sustainability, and Afrofuturism. Her practice employs performance, filmmaking, collage, and storytelling. For Jaz, it's all about sense- and memory-making.
INFLUENCES
Phoebe Boswell | Lina Iris Viktor | Keith Piper |
Barry Jenkins | Mati Diop | Denisse Perez | Life of a Craphead | George Clinton | Vanley Burke | Michael Jones | Benjamin Zephaniah | Youngsook Choi | Rajni Perera | Octavia Butler | Selina Sagnia | Pierre Santos | Kamil Mahmood | Dee Rees | Sampira | Roo Dhissou | Erwan Bacha | Hayv Kahraman | B4g Lord
Caribbean Pop-Up Cinema
Awards & spotlight
2020
WLAA
Innovation Community Award
The black book
Campaign & Spotlight
2016
Heritage Lottery Fund
Routes 2 Roots Outstanding Award: Young Co-Creator
High Sheriff Awards
'Young Person who has contributed to our Region's Cultural and Creative Heritage'
2015
UpRising
Modest Leader Award
community
Community Micro-Film Festival, community film night (2022)
special thanks to Eastside Projects, Film Birmingham, Mockingbird Cinema; filmmakers Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Fabio Calundungo, Gugan Gill, Canaan Brown, Brandon Orgill; and panellists Vik Chandla, Courtenay Welcome, Hasan Khan, and Lexia Tomlinson
Billboard Project, art engagement project (2022)
special thanks to Grand Plan & Word Life Centre
UNIT*, Black neurodivergence conference (2021)
special thanks to Dead Horse PR & Black Autistics
'Happy Fathers Day', promo video (2021)
special thanks to Shea Butter by Be
Project Grime, promo video (2020)
special thanks to SIP, Word Life Centre & BRMTWN
Ode to Grime, promo video (2019)
special thanks to The Grime Archive & Dead Horse PR
Transatlantic Dialogues, diasporic music & academia convergence (2019)
special thanks to BRMTWN, Dead Horse PR, Dr Joy White & Professor Emeritus Carolyn Cooper
Stand up to Racism, event/street photography (2017)
#TurnUp, voting campaign (2017)
special thanks to Bite the Ballot
Routes 2 Roots (2015 - 2016)
special thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund & Beatfreeks
commissions
MOTHERSHIP, performance (2022)
special thanks to Ikon Gallery, The New Art Gallery Walsall, and Keith Piper
OFFSITE 9: The British Art Show (2022)
special thanks to Creative Black Country & Asylum Art Gallery
Creating Joy Project (2021-22)
special thanks to Stephen Lawrence Research Centre & The Antipode Foundation
Ikon Slow Boat Symposium (2022)
special thanks to Ikon Gallery & Ikon Youth Programme
Ikon Migrant Festival (2021)
special thanks to Ikon Gallery & the Freelands Foundation
MAIA: The Spatial Imagination (2021)
special thanks to MAIA and Auden Allen
MA Inter-Institutional Symposium (2020)
special thanks to Birmingham School of Art
MAIA: Keep Keeping Fund (2020)
exhibitions
'A4' (2021-22) Group Exhibition
special thanks to Oddball Space & Jacob Carter
Black Sands: A History of Black Horror (2021) Group Exhibition
special thanks to Sampira & Asylum Art Gallery
Postcard Project (2020) Group Exhibition
special thanks to Artists Responding To...
Unheard (2020) Group Exhibition
special thanks to UKII & Jewish Liberal
PEEP@STRYX (2020) Residency
special thanks to Stryx Gallery & Edward Wakefield
CURATION
The Pocket of God (2022–) with Eastside Projects
Community Micro-Film Festival (2022) with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Eastside Projects & Film Birmingham
Billboard Project (2022) with Grand Plan & Word Life Centre
In Loving Memory of Errol (2021-22) with Ikon Gallery
Mono-Log Sessions (2018-20) with BRMTWN
Culture Catwalk (2017) with Culture Central
INSTALLATION/SET
'Traveller' (2022) Rajni Perera
'The Courtship of Giants' (2022) Emii Alrai
'EARTHSTRONG' (2021-22) Jaz Morrison
'Fly or Die' (2021) Fabio Calundungo