Nancy Willis is a London-based artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s.
Her processes include painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media and moving image. Nancy’s work explores universal themes like love, loss and human vulnerability from her experience of life as a disabled woman.
In her early career, Nancy joyfully embraced the freedoms of being an artist in contrast to the restrictions she had experienced in her education at a ‘special’ school.
In 2023 four of Nancy's artworks were selected for Women in Revolt! At Tate Britain, which then toured the UK
Recently, her solo show 'With One Touch Her Spirit Soared' was on display in the side chapel at St James's Church Piccadilly as a part of Disability History Month.
Currently her new collaborative work, made with artist Jenny Polak, is on display as a part of The Woman's Art Collection at Murray Edwards College Cambridge, in their latest exhibition 'The Sleepers'. 18th Sept - 22nd Feb 2026