From my bed to yours is a pop-up postal project by disabled artist Jamila Prowse. When cut off from the outside world, the thing Jamila misses most is the sun on her face and wind in her hair. Here, she attempts to bring small parts of nature – the sun, the clouds, the sea – directly into the bedroom. Featuring pop-up cutouts of a mini bedroom landscape, a step-by-step how-to instruction guide and a letter from the artist, delivered to your home via post. Intended as a move towards analogue remote programming, in the accompanying text Jamila writes about how she wants remote programming she can hold in her hands. Pre-cut-out versions are available for anyone who doesn’t have access to scissors, and there is also a downloadable print-at-home option.

Artist bio

Jamila Prowse is a self-taught artist whose practice evolved from her sick bed. Across moving image, textiles, writing, painting, photography and more, she makes in order to process complex experiences and emotions around disability, autism, mixed race ancestry and social isolation. She intuitively moves between mediums as a form of play and to respond to fluctuations in her energy and physical symptoms. Informed by fellow crip artists, she experiments with different sensory registers as a commitment to creative access adjustments. She hopes to return to art as a site of healing, freedom and resistance.

Previous exhibitions and screenings include V&A, Whitechapel Gallery, Somerset House, South London Gallery, Studio Voltaire, Goldsmiths CCA, (London), Aspex (Portsmouth), Newlyn Art Gallery (Cornwall), NewBridge Project, (Newcastle), TULCA Visual Arts Festival, Ormston House Gallery, (Ireland), and Hordaland Kunstsenter (Norway). Her writing has appeared in Frieze, Art Monthly, British Journal of Photography and elsewhere.

Instagram: @jamilaprowse

Website: https://jamilaprowse.com/