Some Portfolio
Projects
from 2018
Tanya Raabe-Webber’s ACE funded project Futures in Practice.
2024
Creative Enabler training pilot project.
Young Curators, Hive, Shrewsbury (Artist support)
2023 - 2024
20th April - 18th June 2024 by The Hive Cultural Investigators
A unique heritage exhibition designed by our Young Curators team – The Hive Cultural Investigators! Exploring a range of art forms & featuring people from the past & present who have benefited from engaging with our building over the decades. This exhibition is part of a Hive Wellbeing Project made possible through the generous funding from Arts Council England.
All welcome to the free launch day on Saturday 20th April, 3 – 6pm
Play - The Movie
Ty Pawb, Wrexham
2023
I created Polly Pocket style fixed and loose part sculptures using suitcases. I sourced retro and vintage suitcases to accompany my sculptures. I also created drawing and sculptural work during artist in residency afternoons, inspired by gallery visitors ideas as well as they way they used the space.
PLAY – The Movie! is the vision of artist Rachael Clerke, commissioned by Tŷ Pawb and working in partnership with playworker Penny Wilson of Assemble Play.
Gallery one transformed into an evolving film set for eight weeks. During this time, children will work alongside artists Ella Jones, Harold Offeh, Noemi Santos, Sarah Ryder, Jamila Walker (me!) and Rhi Moxon, local playworkers and 73 Degrees films to collaboratively create an epic feature length film that explores play in Wrexham. How & where do we play now, how and where do we want to play in the future?
PLAY – The Movie! has links to the Welsh Play Sufficiency Assessment, and research being carried out in relation to Wrexham’s forthcoming campaign to become UK City of Culture 2029.
The finished film will premiere in a red carpet event at Wrexham Odeon in late 2023.
‘ARTIST TOOLKIT’ -
The Weather Report from 2022
Project lead by Artist Jill Impey, creating artwork, attending training, leading a section of an online art session for Meadow Arts around themes of ‘being a good ancestor’ ‘Timelines’ and more.
My work heavily focused on ‘labelling’, ‘being a black female' in rural settings’ and ‘home’. i created digital illustrations and/or photo montages.
https://jillimpey.com/2021/01/17/the-weather-report/
‘THIS WAY UP’ 2017 – 18
Films from this wonderful project - https://vimeo.com/user53112326
This creative development project involved peer & professional
mentoring sessions, from Creative Health CIC staff, which helped built my
confidence & drive to evaluate and my work & work indifferent & new ways that suit me.
I relished the opportunity to collaborate with more artists. Idea sharing & support was encouraged & embraced by all.
The mentoring often involved interesting and person centered tasks & challenges. One of the main outcomes for me, from this project, has been that now view & treat my community art & fine art practice as self informing &, one & the same. ‘This Way Up’ was a visual art and wellbeing project by Creative Health CIC for adults and children living and working in Wolverhampton & Staffordshire. The project gave various community groups the opportunity to take part in free art workshops, including asylum seekers, refugees, migrants, people with dementia as well as the general public.
I devised & ran various art workshops, (producing resources and making examples) including drawing, experimental printmaking, collage work and more. Each session had a loose theme that was open to personal interpretation.
The opportunity to utilize Wolverhampton art gallery’s collection within our workshops, was an inspiring addition. The staff at the gallery were very supportive & communicative.
Journeys - Poetry & Photography project
Switch Project & Elixir Arts Jan – April 2019
An 8 week Spoken word combined with Fine art photography project
focusing on creative self-expression for a group of young adults who attend various wellbeing and educational sessions at the Switch project in Wolverhampton.
Jamila & Emily prep included, producing relevant, supportive resources and making examples. The project was tailored to give the participants the opportunity to challenge and showcase how they would like to world to view them, as well as their home city. Wolverhampton, through visual art (photography) and spoken word.
The work produced will be collated to create a book to gift to young people, parents & carers.
Each session had a loose theme that was open to personal interpretation. Often participants were encouraged and supported, to take the themes as a starting & create & develop self-determined works. Participants often directed staff & each other, to hold objects, lighting, and reflectors so they could see their visual ideas come to life.
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Curious Nature Project
2019 - 20
Working in collaboration with Lovely Land, funded by The National Community Fund. A programme of visual art and community garden work for all ages,
The Curious Nature Project was a seasonal programme of nature-inspired activities and events. Designed to create opportunities for the local community to engage with their shared green spaces, and access a connection with nature right on their doorstep.
Myself and Lovelyland worked in partnership, to create a varied programme of creative, accessible, explorative activites, for specific groups and ages, inc yoga, print making & more. The events & activities, celebrate our outdoor spaces and engage with local community, inclusively.
CNP logo designed by me along with all the illustrative work plus photography.
ShapeShift Elixir Arts
June - Nov 2020
Arts and Wellbeing - YouTube channel
Funded by Shropshire Council Arts
Multi-sensory arts & wellbeing sessions to participants.
Devised & Delivered by visual artist Jamila Walker &
qualified yoga teacher & artist Emily Wilkinson.
Resources - PDF Audio tracks featuring music, creative exercises & meditations.
Our aim is to help people connect with their natural creativity, feel good about themselves & improve wellbeing (physically, mentally & emotionally) whilst having fun.
As well as giving participants a physical and creative experience, we aim to create a digital toolkit & creative resources for positive body awareness so that everyone we work with contributes to something of longer term value.
“The arts provide a route to better health and wellbeing while health
provides a route to the arts that can help to overcome persistent inequalities of access.”
Creative Health Inquiry Report 2017. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health & Wellbeing
The empowering nature of these sessions could be beneficial to those that engage with films/audio/PDFS, as well as adults/familes who are experiencing unemployment, mental health issues, body image issues, or other factors which may make people vulnerable.
Within a body positive & creative space, we aim to build self esteemand spark inspiration whatever participants’ circumstances may be.