Jameisha Prescod FRSA is an artist-filmmaker, writer and award-winning photographer from South London. With work grounded in a research-based practice, Jameisha explores how culture, identity, black history and colonialism influence the way illnesses are experienced. By combining visual art mediums like artists’ moving image, documentary photography and digital art with poetry and essay writing, their work reimagines how disabled stories and history can be archived in more experimental ways.
Jameisha is also the founder and creative director of You Look Okay To Me, the online space for chronic illness. They explore the social and cultural aspects of living with a chronic condition through visual mediums. Since the project's inception, the community has grown to over 40,000 online across all social platforms.
Added to their work as a visual artist, they are also a writer and was included in a republishing of Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill.
Jameisha is currently an associate artist at Forma Arts & Media, a trustee for London Arts in Health Forum an was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for Art & Culture in 20205
Previous collaborations
meta, gal-dem, Adidas, Huffington Post, Wellcome Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, Unlimited, Scope Charity, Creative Conscience
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EMAIL
SOCIAL MEDIA
@youlookokaytome
EXHIBITIONS / FESTIVALS / TALKS
April 2025 - What Lies Beneath the Surface: On Donald Rodney & the Politics of the Body (Panel discussion)
October 2024 - BFI London Film Festival
April 2024 - Cripe Arte Spazio Exhibition at the Venice Biennale - Group show
June 2024 - Poorly Exhibition - Group show
September 2022 - Unlimited Festival - Group show
November 2022 - Aesthetica Short Film Festival
COMMISSIONS
2024 - A Safe Black Birth (Wellcome Trust)
2023 - Irpinia (BFI Doc Society)
2022 - On Black Pain (Unlimited Open Awards)
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2025 - Forbes 30 Under 30, Art & Culture
2024 - Vital Capacities
2024 - Getting Real Fellowship
2024 - Mas Palou Residency
2023 - B3 Talent Forum
2022 - Sheffield Doc Fest Alternate Realities Talent Artist (UK)
2021 - Wellcome Photography Prize
2021 - Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs
