
jaz morrison
Jaz is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, & curator, employing the Afro-Speculative to explore history, social space, community, and storytelling.
Utilising performance, photography, moving image, collage, & social practice, Jaz intends to bring people together for the purpose of care, catharsis & understanding.
Though her work is often contemplative, she enjoys embracing irreverence and farce too. For Jaz, it's all part of the journey to sense– and memory–making.
spotlight
2022
WLAA
Fundraiser Community Award
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'




community
Community Micro-Film Festival, community film night (2022)
special thanks to Eastside Projects, Film Birmingham, Mockingbird Cinema; BRMTWN; filmmakers Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Fabio Calundungo, Gugan Gill, Canaan Brown, Brandon Orgill; and panellists Vik Chandla, Courtenay Welcome, Hasan Khan, and Lexia Tomlinson
* Part of Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi's 'Equations of a Body at Rest',
Best Public Art of 2022 Artsy List & UAP Public Art Highlights 2022
In Loving Memory of Ronnie, art engagement project (2022)
special thanks to Grand Plan & Word Life Centre
Read more about In Loving Memory of Ronnie
UNIT*, Black neurodivergence conference (2021)
special thanks to Dead Horse PR, Black Autistics, MKH & BRMTWN
'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
#TurnUp, voting campaign (2017)
special thanks to Bite the Ballot
Routes 2 Roots (2015 - 2016)
special thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund & Beatfreeks
commissions
Usi's Eye, micro-residency commission (2023)
special thanks to Stryx Gallery & Marcin Sz
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
'Summer Camp Showreel' (2022) Members Show
special thanks to Eastside Projects
'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
GOD-POCKET (2023) with Yusuf Dongo, Trixiebella Suen, Tesha Murrain–Hernandez, Neoliberalizard, Nicola Singh, and Eastside Projects.
'Liminal People': Guided Meditation & Film Night (2023) with Tesha Murrain-Hernandez, Tanazia Gabriel-Fleary, De'Anne Crooks, Amartey Golding, and David Blandy & Larry Achiampong
In Loving Memory of Ronnie: Billboard Project (2023)
with Ethan Fenton, Laura Chiswa, Luke Johnson, Grace Morrison, and Zac Akeem. Thanks to orgs Grand Plan & Word Life Centre
Community Micro-Film Festival (2022) with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Eastside Projects & Film Birmingham
In Loving Memory of Errol (2021-22) with Ikon Gallery & BRMTWN
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