Jespa Jacob Smith
they/them

A minimal contour sketch of a button-up shirt, glasses and beanie-style hat. They are positioned in a way so that they look like they're being worn, but no facial features are drawn.

Job title
visual artist   poet  
Identity categories
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trans   White   depression  
Places of practice

Canada

Germany

Images
A minimal contour sketch of a button-up shirt, glasses and beanie-style hat. They are positioned in a way so that they look like they're being worn, but no facial features are drawn.

A minimal contour sketch of a button-up shirt, glasses and beanie-style hat. They are positioned in a way so that they look like they're being worn, but no facial features are drawn.

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Biography

Jespa Jacob Smith is a DIY-visual artist and poet. Their work focusses on transitional and surreal situations as well as language and the way we try to use it to bridge the space between each other as well as ourselves and our thoughts. Their art and poetry is informed but not limited to experiences of gender and trans oppression, marginalisation and privileges, and depression. They have been featured in Mothmilk Zine, All in Your Head Zine and other DIY publications. They have shown their video art and performed poetry on a few occasions in the UK, Canada and Germany. They live in Canada and Germany.

Transnational Queer Underground. “About the Artist,” n.d. https://transnational-queer-underground.net/jespa-jacob-smith-drawing-painting-video/.

i use pens to write and to draw. sometimes i make videos. i advocate for trans*queer causes. i am a white bespectacled trans* person currently living in germany.

Vimeo. “Jespa Jacob Smith,” n.d. https://vimeo.com/jespajacobsmith?embedded=true&source=owner_portrait&owner=46714471.
Filmography