From paralysis to playfulness: Jason Wilsher-Mills’ whimsical art transforms adversity into joy

A charmingly whimsical exhibition filled with colour and joy that’s also the result of a serious illness and disability.Artist Jason Wilsher-Mills was admitted to hospital in August 1980 with an illness that later transpired to be an autoimmune condition that left him paralysed from the neck down from the age of 11 to 16.
During his enforced immobility, his world was one of TV shows and comics, and the 1980 Olympics. While most of us would see this as an adversity to overcome, he sees it a