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.
Jake Starr holds a Master of Fine Arts from the National Art School (2024). Their work has been exhibited in galleries across Australia including Blindside, Schmick Contemporary, Rofe St and Tiles. They have received recognition through awards such as the 2021 Ellen Lee O’Shaughnessy Printmaking Award and the 2025 Gosford Regional Gallery Moving Image Art Prize. Their films have screened in programs internationally including Yung Nihilist (New York), Image Festival (Toronto), ecoSYNTH² (Berlin) and the International Experimental Film Festival (Athens). They have published texts with Un Projects, Pulp, Sent and Terra Firma. Based in Sydney, Australia, Jake Starr continues to develop a cinematic and material language which pushes beyond anthropocentric thought.