Jacob George Wilson is a contemporary artist known for creating multimedia works of poetry that seamlessly combine his singular poetic texts with layered self-devised or self-curated imagery.

His practice explores the dignity of ordinary experiences with sentimental humour and candour. Through large-scale digital prints, films, and collections of found objects—both altered and unaltered—Wilson constructs worlds in which emphasis becomes sensibility.

Born in Burton upon Trent, England, in 1999, Wilson grew up in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the son of a plant mechanic and a primary school office administrator, in a house “under the shadow of the Holywell Flour Mill.” It was here that he developed an early fascination with boredom and the multiplicity of ways it can be reimagined or resisted.

Wilson earned his BA in Moving Image at the University of Brighton, where he immersed himself in the history, theory, and experimental practices of film and interdisciplinary art. He went on to complete an MA in Artist Filmmaking and Moving Image at Goldsmiths, University of London, deepening his exploration of avant-garde methodologies. Together, these formative experiences cemented a commitment to aesthetic autonomy, critical inquiry, and a poetic engagement with being that continues to guide his work.

Wilson currently lives and works in Peckham, London, where he continues to develop multiple projects, including Picture Cards to Luna, the Notes from the Ground series of found articles, and an evolving style of work that combines digital imagery captured on a DV camcorder with poetic text in the style of captioned cinema—most recently realised in the collection of poems titled Lines Across the Continent and the surrealist epic Devils’ Bargain, So Watch the Money You Pick.