Jack Freckleton Sturla
is a teacher, translator, and artist.
Their work focuses on archival practices and the idea of translation across disciplines, exploring “found concepts” and the connections between the history of art, music, and literature in both high and pop culture.
Currently based in Pavia, Cambridge, Santiago de Compostela.
For work enquiries, collaborations, and general chit-chat,
please drop an e-mail at j.freckletonsturla@gmail.com
My most recent project is
- Hercules at the Crossroads, “stream of consh” Choose Your Own Adventure text game. Itch.io, 2025
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?, 2023
- 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
Making Friends Anything Better?
Poster design and encrypted message. Collage, pencil, and digital screenprinting.
Cover Design for “Nixon in China”.
For translated edition of John Adams’s “Nixon in China”. Editorial project for Undergraduate Degree in Graphic Art thesis.
Marty Murawski
Pencil and digital illustration.
“Good souls, we have shown you here how in sad mischance a sign was given of God’s grace.”
Poster design for Benjamin Britten’s “Curlew River”. Digital illustration.
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.
Frontispiece for “Hercules at the Crossroads”
For Choose Your Own Adventure text game, published on Itch.io. Pencil on paper.
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.
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. Pencil on paper, coloured digitally.
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 Danse Macabre, translation for Dodedans.com, 2021
- Piper, M. The Turn of the Screw, unofficial translation, 2019
- Goodman, A. Nixon in China, unofficial translation, 2019
Publications and other work in the wild
- Hercules at the Crossroads, “stream of consh” Choose Your Own Adventure text game. Itch.io, 2025
- 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