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Like many disabled artists Jason is an early adopter of technology, using its advantages to circumvent the limitations of his impairment. Much of his work starts on an iPad, but from there is converted into an array of media from prints to, as shown here, an inflatable sculpture.

About Jason Wilsher-Mills

Jason trained as a traditional oil painter in the early 1990s, but drifted into teaching & education management and away from being an artist. Then in 2004 his life changed when his disability changed and he was unable to continue working due to access issues, it was at this time that an artist friend pointed out that he should do the thing he was trained to do: ’You are an artist Jason!’  Jason’s crip aesthetics are also inflected by his working class past, saucy seaside characters, and the trauma of disabled childhoods. So, for example, characters such as the Folkestone Argonaut are modelled in their underpants, but also burst with vibrant colours and hidden designs that express a joy and pride in disability and difference.  His landmark pieces Folkestone Argonaut and Rhubarb Totem both feature in the show, both inside and outside the CREA gallery.

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Image credit, Andy Barker

Image descriptions:

Banner image. Installation photograph of part of an exhibition in a gallery courtyard with red brick buildings and wide concrete paths. On the right is a large pink sculpture of a stylised and cartoonish person wearing bright red shoes, green pants and a striped blue top with a hood. The hood has two elongated sections suggesting a pair of animal ears, as well as a line of red spikes trailing from the top of their head and down their back. Their expression is angry and wild, showing their teeth with wide eyes under round yellow glasses. In their left hand is a long pale cylindrical object. The to left, slightly behind the sculpture is a sculpture of a golden car, angled on a plinth to make it appear like its driven out of the wall. On the number plate in black text it reads ‘LAMÉ’.

1. (Similar to the banner image, with a zoomed out perspective down the courtyard.) Installation photograph of part of an exhibition in a gallery courtyard with red brick buildings and wide concrete paths. On the right is a large pink sculpture of a stylised and cartoonish person wearing bright red shoes, green pants and a striped blue top with a hood. The hood has two elongated sections suggesting a pair of animal ears, as well as a line of red spikes trailing from the top of their head and down their back. Their expression is angry and wild, showing their teeth with wide eyes under round yellow glasses. In their left hand is a long pale cylindrical object. The to left, slightly behind the sculpture is a sculpture of a golden car, angled on a plinth to make it appear like its driven out of the wall. On the number plate in black text it reads ‘LAMÉ’.