(Photo: Idol, Jamal Gerald, Transform 19 - JMA Photography)
Jamal Gerald
An artist and writer based in Leeds, Jamal Gerald’s work is conversational, unapologetic and provocative with a social message. He makes work that he wants to see, intending to take up space as a Black queer person.
He is the Artistic Director of Dudaan (du-darn), a Black queer enterprise - set up in November 2021. It produces his work - and creates opportunities, brave spaces and support systems for Black queer artists in the North.
In 2018, he was awarded the Arts Council England Artists’ International Development Fund to do research in Trinidad and Tobago. His work has also been shown at Kampnagel (Hamburg), SPILL Festival of Performance, Royal Court, Battersea Arts Centre and the Barbican. Jamal is a Recipient of a Jerwood Arts’ Live Work Fund Award in 2021.