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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.​
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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.
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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.
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spotlight
CLICK HERE FOR PRESS
2025
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
'Nesting' Residency & Nestival of Ideas Panel
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​2023
Young Archivist CPD
dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage
sahjan kooner
Curatorial Support
SONIC SIGNALS
abbas zahedi
Curatorial Support
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​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
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2020
WLAA
Innovation Community Award
The black book
Campaign & Spotlight
Residency
MAIA Keep keeping fund
Recipient
MA INTER-INSTITUTIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Speaker
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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'


CURATING
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Mamahood Muses (ongoing) with The Mamahood Space
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The Arkhe: Prototypes (ongoing) with Yusuf Dongo; Adéolá...
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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.
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'Liminal People': Guided Meditation & Film Night (2023) with Tesha Murrain-Hernandez, Tanazia Gabriel-Fleary, De'Anne Crooks, Amartey Golding, and David Blandy & Larry Achiampong
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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
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Community Micro-Film Festival (2022) with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Eastside Projects, Civic Square & Film Birmingham
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In Loving Memory of Errol (2021-22) with Ikon Gallery & BRMTWN
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Mono-Log Sessions (2018-20) with BRMTWN
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Culture Catwalk (2017) with Culture Central
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communing
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Hippodrome Origins, artist development programme (2025)
special thanks to Anna Himali Howard & Sophia Griffin (Birmingham Hippodrome).
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(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).
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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).
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les ongles noirs, incidental artist project (2024)
special thanks to melissandre varin, Sym Stellium, Eastside Projects (Birmingham), FABRIC (Midlands), and Ban Workshop (Dakar).
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Raising Black Voices, community art & engagement (2023)
special thanks to Northfield Arts Forum (Naomi Wood) and Raising Black Voices (Ashley Wilson).
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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
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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
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UNIT*, Black neurodivergence conference (2021)
special thanks to Dead Horse PR, Black Autistics, MKH & BRMTWN
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'Happy Fathers Day', promo video (2021)
special thanks to Shea Butter by Be
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Project Grime, promo video (2020)
special thanks to SIP, Word Life Centre & BRMTWN
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Ode to Grime, promo video (2019)
special thanks to The Grime Archive, BRMTWN & Dead Horse PR
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Transatlantic Dialogues, in-conversation event (2019)
special thanks to BRMTWN, Dead Horse PR, Dr Joy White & Professor Emeritus Carolyn Cooper
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#TurnUp, voting campaign (2017)
special thanks to Bite the Ballot
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Routes 2 Roots, community art & engagement (2015-16)
special thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund & Beatfreeks
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creating
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A Cleaner's Lament | Grief, A Love Letter, text (2023)
special thanks to BUILDHOLLYWOOD, Zarina Rossheart, Brenda Hickin, and Grace Ndiritu
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Usi's Eye | HOMEGROWN, micro-residency commission (2023)
special thanks to Stryx Gallery & Marcin Sz
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MOTHERSHIP | Jet Black Futures, performance (2022)
special thanks to Ikon Gallery, The New Art Gallery Walsall, and Keith Piper
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Wolveren Watchmen | OFFSITE 9: The British Art Show (2022)
special thanks to Creative Black Country & Asylum Art Gallery
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EARTHSTRONG | Creating Joy Project (2021-22)
special thanks to Stephen Lawrence Research Centre & The Antipode Foundation
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Firmament | Ikon Migrant Festival (2021)
special thanks to Ikon Gallery & the Freelands Foundation
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Legacy | MAIA: The Spatial Imagination (2021)
special thanks to MAIA and Auden Allen
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exhibiting
'Summer Camp' (2022, 2023) Members Show
special thanks to Eastside Projects
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'A4' (2021-22) Group Exhibition
special thanks to Oddball Space & Jacob Carter
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Black Sands: A History of Black Horror (2021) Group Exhibition
special thanks to Sampira W. & Asylum Art Gallery
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Postcard Project (2020) Group Exhibition
special thanks to Artists Responding To...
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Unheard (2020) Group Exhibition
special thanks to UKII & Jewish Liberal
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INSTALLing
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'Sense Arts Fest' (Hannah Moreton & Sense Art Makers, 2024)
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'U & I' (Natasha MacVoy, 2023)
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'dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage' (Sahjan Kooner, 2023)
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'GOD-POCKET' (Jaz Morrison, 2023)
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'Traveller' (Rajni Perera, 2022)
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'The Courtship of Giants' (Emii Alrai, 2022)
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'EARTHSTRONG' (Jaz Morrison, 2021-22)
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'Fly or Die' (Fabio Calundungo, 2021)
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