Jack Freckleton Sturla is a teacher, translator, and artist.
Their work focuses on archival practices and the idea of translation across disciplines, exploring connections between the history of art, music, and literature in both high and pop culture.
For work enquiries, collaborations, and general chit-chat,
please drop an e-mail at j.freckletonsturla@gmail.com
Currently based in Pavia, Cambridge, Santiago de Compostela.
Making Friends Anything Better?
Poster design and encrypted message. Collage, pencil, and digital screenprinting.
Cover for translated edition of Adams’s “Nixon in China”.
Editorial project for Undergraduate Degree in Graphic Art thesis.
Marty Murawski
Pencil and digital illustration.
Curlew River
Poster design for Benjamin Britten’s “Curlew River”.
The Green Eyed Monster
Illustration on Lord Berners’s “The Green Eyed Monster”. Pencil and digital illustration.
The Wild Chase
Vector illustration.
And a first Age passed over, and a state of dismal woe.
Study on William Blake’s “The Book of Urizen”, pl. 10. Pencil and digital illustration.
The Birth of Venus
Pencil, collage, digital illustration and collage.
Urizen
Based on William Blake’s “The Book of Urizen”, pl. 12. Vector digital illustration.
Notes on Barbieneimer
Digital illustration.
Cover design for Complesso Brera Editorial
Editorial project for Master’s Degree in Multimedia Pedagogy thesis.
Is Pepsi Ok?
Pencil and digital screenprinting.
Frontispiece for “Hercules t the Crossroads”.
Pencil and digital illustration.
Nemesis
Pencil and digital collage.
Come un’ape ne’ giorni d’aprile
From “La Cenerentola”, illustration for young music lover booklet, 2024, Krakov Royal Opera Festival
Art projects
- La Cenerentola, illustrations for young music lover booklet, 2024, Krakov Royal Opera Festival
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia, illustrations for young music lover booklet, 2023, Rossini in Wildbad
- Making friends anything better?
- Complesso Brera. Coding, archival, book project, 2022
- Archival Variations on “Death by Drowning”. Coding project, 2021
- Via (al)la musica, public art installation, 2021
- How to Display a War. Photography book on Herbert Bayer’s “Road to Victory”, 2020
- 10 Illustrated Documents. Photography book on John Adams’s “Nixon in China”, 2019
Translation (English-Italian/Italian-English)
- Sir Thomas Isham in Rome. Elisa Martini., 50th Anniversary Lamport Hall catalogue, (UK), 2024
- Giannetto Fieschi: L’esperienza dell’arte. Del Guercio, A., Edizioni Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), 2022
- Pietro Scandura. Del Guercio, A., Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milano (MI), 2022
- Kaleidoskop: Arte Contemporanea in Germania. Del Guercio, A., Edizioni Montoro/Contemporanea, 2022
- Tallinn’s Dance Macabre, 2021 translation for Dodedans.com
- Piper, M. The Turn of the Screw, 2019 unofficial translation
- Goodman, A. Nixon in China, 2019 unofficial translation
My work in the wild
- Montalto, August 10th, “stream of consh” poem in Queer Responses to Dante’s Paradiso, Carrion Press, 2024
- Ferist luv, hel Herridol Gud, un die Tresarrows gaynd, “stream of consh” short story in Queer Zine vol. 1. Fairies Collective, 2023
- 3 Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes, piano arrangement and illustration, Petrucci Music Library, 2021
- The Works of Mercy / Gli Atti di Misericordia, multilingual poem, Ritorniamo a Casa. Collettivo Umami, 2021
- Jeff Grosso, digital illustration, Not Like You Fan Zine: Love Letters to Grosso. Not Like You Records, Albuquerque (NM), 2020