Jacob Anwar

Through a range of printmaking techniques, I create unconventional visual narratives inspired by my lived experiences, combining real subjects with freakish concepts to produce provocative works that explore themes of queerness, bodily autonomy, grotesque indulgences and radical politics. I’m driven by my priority to uplift the marginalised, and as a final year BA (Hons) Fine Art student, I aim to work my way my into the local art scene in hopes of collaborating with others to inspire social change as I have done so before in collaborative projects such as ‘Common Grounds’ (2025) and ‘Home Body’ (2026). I find myself sticking to the DIY ideals of punk culture, which often manifests in the form of print distribution, alleyway wheat-pastes and self-published zines like my ‘1 Year of Trans Joy and Turmoil’ zine that was a part of, and sold at, the ‘Weird Hope Engines & Nottingham Subcultural Fashion in the 1980s’ zine fair at the Bonington Gallery in March 2025.