Access to Work

Jamila Prowse is an artist and writer propelled by curiosity and a desire to understand herself. Informed by her lived experience of disability and mixed-race ancestry, Jamila’s work is research-driven and indebted to Black feminist and crip scholars. She is an active participant in a rich and growing contemporary disabled artistic community, and has been researching, programming and creating around cripping – centring disabled voices – the art world since 2018. Jamila’s writing has appeared in Frieze, Art Monthly and elsewhere.

Hang Linton is a self-taught, interdisciplinary artist, working in music, performance, dance, video, sculpture and installation. Their creative practice explores otherness through sound, non-linear time concepts, community and public art. Hang has performed and exhibited at Gropius Bau Berlin, BALTIC Centre for Creative Arts Gateshead, and Manchester Apollo. Hang has recently released their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘Demonstrations’ via Come Play Records & EMI North and will embark on a UK and EU tour in autumn 2025.

Laura Lulika is an artist and cultural worker based in Leeds. Their experience of being a disabled, queer, neurodivergent and working-class parent shapes their creative practice. Community, collaboration and sustainability are a continual thread that weaves through all of their work. Lulika provides accessibility and EDI training, workshops, talks, auditing and access documents in various formats for arts organisations and festivals. They are currently working with Berwick Film Festival, Counterflows Glasgow, Scottish Sculpture Workshop and their local arts organisation, East Leeds Project, of which they are a trustee.  

Kirsteen McNish is a writer whose interests are focused on unearthing lesser-heard stories and curating special events in unusual places. She is currently writing a book on her neurodivergent child, place, return and time.

The Art Working Parents Alliance is a UK-based nationwide network open to all parents working in the art world: mothers, fathers and others. It currently has over 500 members hailing from sectors including academia, commercial galleries, public organisations, museum education, communications and the media, alongside artists. It’s free to join.