At 11, the artist was struck with a condition that paralysed him from the neck down. His new exhibition recalls years of hospitals, family love, and fighting with cinema managers In the exhibition Jason and the Adventure of 254, there's a sculpture of runner Sebastian Coe's body with a TV for a head. This freezes in time the moment that the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills was diagnosed with an auto-immune condition: at 2:54pm at Pinderfields hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, while watching Coe w...
'Mum fought like a tigress to stop me going into care': Jason Wilsher-Mills on turning his childhood paralysis into art
The Guardian - 9 Apr 2024 19:14
At 11, the artist was struck with a condition that paralysed him from the neck down. His new exhibition recalls years of hospitals, family love, and fighting with cinema managers In the exhibition Jason and the Adventure of 254, there's a sculpture of runner Sebastian Coe's body with a TV for a head. This freezes in time the moment that the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills was diagnosed with an auto-immune condition: at 2:54pm at Pinderfields hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, while watching Coe w...
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