Jake Starr is a research-based artist residing on unceded Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia).
Starr’s practice yearns across new media, sculpture, film and text, toward speculative post-human futures. Much of their process involves the collation and appropriation of often disregarded ideas, data and intelligences in order to formulate new and surprising relational ecologies. Characterised by strange syntheses, Starr’s research is informed by the frameworks of post-structuralism, affect theory and queer ecology as much as the seemingly frameless, fringe stirrings of furry fandom, conspiracy theories and technological accelerationism. Their work often operates within zones of friction or slippage, between embodied and disembodied, natural and synthetic, science and fantasy; creating webs of intimacy between seemingly disparate im/materialities which work to evoke imaginaries that exist beyond the constrictions of historical grand narratives and anthropocentric hegemony.
Solo Exhibitions
A Weak & Panicked Animal at Syrup Contemporary, 2024
Queer Ecology at Schmick Contemporary, 2023 (Collaborative project with Steven Cavanagh)
for Maudlin Dust at Layton Street, 2021
Group Exhibitions
A Private Viewing at Syrup Contemporary, 2024
every time we touch I get this feeling at Blindside, 2024
Content Aware at 169 King St, 2023
Plexus at Abstract Thoughts Gallery, 2023
I Am Not My Body at Qtopia (Bandstand), 2023
NoClip at NAS Stairwell Gallery, 2022
Fluid Thinking at Tiles, 2022
Misprint at Gaffa, 2022
Stain at Anti-Gallery, 2022
Sent; 100 ideas about space at Abstract Thoughts Gallery, 2021
Silent Auction for Djab Wurrung at Monster Mouse, 2020
DR5 at Rewind Photo Lab, 2019
Rewind II at Rewind Photo Lab, 2019
Happy, Sad, Angry, Mad at Woodburn Creatives, 2019
Me & My Love at Down Under Space, 2019
Who Are you? at Goodspace, 2018
Head On Photo Festival at Sydney Town Hall, 2016
Screenings
Arebyte on Screen, 2024
See Thru Film Festival, 2024
Awards
Ellen Lee O’Shaughnessy Printmaking Award, 2021
Inner West Built Environment Award, 2020
Publications
Fluid Thinking, 2022
Post Poems, 2021
Sent; 100 ideas about space, 2021
Rewind III photobook, 2019
Rewind II photobook, 2019
Easy Mag, 2019
Rind Zine, 2019
Romka, 2018
Making The Cut Vol 1. The World's Best Collage Artists, 2017
Get it on the Neg, 2017
Atoms Photography, 2017
No Thoughts Zine, 2017
Organiconcrete, 2017
Sydney Photographers by SPC, 2016
Writing
A Haunted House at the End of the World: Biennale of Sydney at the White Bay Power Station for Un Projects, 2024
Porous Romance, love through degrees of obliteration for Pulp, 2024
Cybernetic ecologies; art, nature and an interspecies future for Pulp, 2022
Structural Pressures for Sent by Sophie Lanigan, 2020
Dad's New Dress for Lor Journal, 2018
Interviews
The Anatomy of Bad Video Art w/ Jake Starr for Hung Up, 2024
Fashion, according to Jake Starr for Backyard Opera, 2018
Styling
Inward, Outward for Backyard Opera, 2019
Urban Poet for Pansy Magazine, 2018
Body
Midsummer Night's Freedom Dream for Freaky Freaky Magazine, 2018
Education
Masters of Fine Art, National Art School, 2024
Bachelors of Fine Art, National Art School, 2022
I would like to pay my deepest respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which I work and live.
I extend that respect to elders past, present and emerging and recognise the Gadigal people’s continuing connection to land, water and community.
I also acknowledge the artistic practice of the Gadigal people which has been practiced for thousands of years and continues to enrich culture and community.
Sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was, Always will be, Aboriginal land.
Contact me at jakejar@outlook.com or through social media for any inquiries xoxo
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