About | Jaz Morrison

jaz morrison

Jaz is a multidisciplinary writer & artist-curator, employing the Afro-Speculative to explore social space, community, culture-building, and storytelling.

Utilising performance, digital, installation, and social practice, Jaz operates from a "Black British" positionality to contribute to a collective authorship of relief, care and understanding that can lead to self– and group–actualisation.

Her writing often spotlights community themes, manifesting as research, publication texts, and storytelling. Jaz writes to platform, preserve, and open up institutional conversations to the wider community. Though her work is often contemplative, she enjoys embracing irreverence and farce too. For Jaz, it's all part of sense– and memory–making.

Jaz is the Founder of creative support collective BRMTWN; Creative Director at The Mamahood Space; a Contributing Writer at Corridor8; supports collectives REC (Radical Exhibition Collective) and BLK Current; and has a studio at free house.

CONTACT JAZ

spotlight

CLICK HERE FOR PRESS

2025

BLACK JOY ARCHIVE VIII

Black British Concretion featured.

BLACK DREAMING IN 'THE WAKE'
DR PINNOCK, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

EARTHSTRONG featured.

CORRIDOR8

Contributing Writer (ongoing)

2024

'BACK TO BEING BASIC'
AKSANAKHAN.COM

Blog Interviewee

WHAT'S IN BIRMINGHAM'S TEA?
PECHA KUCHA BIRMINGHAM

Guest Speaker

dirty nails (les ongles noirs)
melissandre varin

Curatorial Support

TALKING BIRDS

'Nesting' Residency & Nestival of Ideas Panel

2023

SERENDIPITY INSTITUTE

Young Archivist CPD

dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage
sahjan kooner

Curatorial Support

SONIC SIGNALS
abbas zahedi

Curatorial Support

2022

WLAA

Fundraiser Community Award

equations for a body at rest
thenjiwe niki nkosi

Curatorial Support

grand plan fund

Recipient

IKON SLOW BOAT SYMPOSIUM

Speaker

2020

WLAA

Innovation Community Award

The black book

Campaign & Spotlight

Peep@Stryx

Residency

MAIA Keep keeping fund

Recipient

MA INTER-INSTITUTIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Speaker

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'

CURATORIAL

Mamahood Muses (ongoing) with The Mamahood Space

The Arkhe: Prototypes (ongoing) with Yusuf Dongo; Adéolá...

The Arkhe: Associate Artist's Lab (2024) with MAIA.

GOD-POCKET (2023) with Yusuf Dongo, Trixiebella Suen, Neoliberalizard, Tesha Murrain–Hernandez, 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, Civic Square & 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

communal

Hippodrome Origins, artist development programme (2025-26)

special thanks to Anna Himali Howard & Sophia Griffin (Birmingham Hippodrome).

Birmingham Disability Festival (2025)

special thanks to Nabila Shanaz & Ways for Wellbeing, Alexandra Morgan, Birmingham Metropolitan College and Aston University, and Fabio Calundungo.

GLOAM x free house (2025)

special thanks to GLOAM Gallery.

(Re)Coded, public health project & exhibition (2024)

special thanks to Regan McDonald, Vic Moyosola, Sadie Barnett; Ikon Gallery and the Stuart Hall Archive Project (University of Birmingham).

Sounds of Being & Belonging, community workshop (2024)

special thanks to Aurella Yussuf, Deniz Sözen, Tina Hofman; University of Birmingham (and affiliated researchers), and The Gap (Moseley).

les ongles noirs, incidental artist project (2024)

special thanks to melissandre varin, Sym Stellium, Eastside Projects (Birmingham), FABRIC (Midlands), and Ban Workshop (Dakar).

Raising Black Voices, community art & engagement (2023)

special thanks to Northfield Arts Forum (Naomi Wood) and Raising Black Voices (Ashley Wilson).

Community Micro-Film Festival, community film festival (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, community art & engagement (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, BRMTWN & Dead Horse PR