Exquisite Corpse sees mother and daughter artists Mandy Prowse and Jamila Prowse formally collaborate for the first time. Though their practices have long been intertwined – sharing a studio, living together, and with Mandy being Jamila’s full time carer into adulthood – here the pair expressly co-author drawings through the titular game. Hybrid characters come to life, section by section, as Mandy and Jamila discuss their relationship, approaches to making and how their practices are influenced and maintained alongside caring responsibilities and disability. 

Established artists have long-created with a body of support; technicians, studio assistants and fabricators who are often obscured under one name. For disabled artists, interdependency is an access adjustment, rather than a sign of prestige or success; providing an antithesis to the competition and individualisation instilled in contemporary artists through late-stage capitalism. Mandy has often supported Jamila in completing artworks and now those contributions are made explicitly visible, in order to underline the many hands and forms of labour that contribute towards an artistic practice, Exquisite Corpse highlights the importance of collectivity and collaboration in crip art.

Exquisite Corpse was commissioned by Disability Arts Online for the exhibition I need to be more than a lesson you learned, in its virtual gallery dis_place on 25 February 2026 – 31 January 2027.