Puppet-maker
Handmade figures, theatrical worlds, objects, videos, performances, characters, and the strange intimacy of things that seem almost alive.
ABOUT
Artist · Puppet-maker · Visual storyteller
About Jeremiah
Jeremiah Bartram makes images, puppets, drawings, masks, comics, and theatrical objects that move between humour, tenderness, mischief, performance, and self-portraiture.
His broader practice gathers the unruly and difficult-to-categorize parts of the work: animals with attitude, handmade figures, strange scenes, adult humour, devotional tension, theatrical persona, and the private mythology of masks.
About the artist
The broader Jeremiah Bartram site gathers the playful, theatrical, animal, comic, and mischievous side of the work.
The wider practice
A practice built from figures, animals, masks, jokes, theatre, and difficult tenderness.
Jeremiah’s work does not sit neatly inside one category. It moves between object-making, drawing, performance, religious tension, erotic humour, animal character, puppet logic, and the strange emotional charge of handmade things.
This site gathers the broader, more unruly side of the work: the drawings, puppets, comics, masks, performances, and fragments that live outside the quieter devotional frame of The Queer Iconographer.
Drawer of animals
Birds, elephants, tigers, ostriches, parent-child scenes, talkers, hunters, fools, and creatures full of personality.
Comic thinker
Images that are playful, dirty, tender, satirical, religiously charged, sexually direct, crude, strange, or all of those at once.
Maker of masks
Foxes, masks, self-portraits, persona, concealment, revelation, performance, and the unstable theatre of identity.
Connected but separate
Two doors into one artist.
Jeremiah’s work holds more than one atmosphere. Some of it is devotional, reflective, and spiritually charged. Some of it is zany, theatrical, sexual, comic, animal, strange, and unruly. The sites stay separate so each side can breathe without flattening the other.
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Devotional work
The Queer Iconographer
Queer Catholic icons, sacred images, reflections, theological tension, and the quieter devotional frame of Jeremiah’s work.
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Artist archive
Jeremiah Bartram
Puppets, drawings, comics, animals, masks, self-portraits, performance, mischief, and the broader personality-driven artist archive.
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Future archive
Puppets & Archive
Older puppet work, videos, comics, performances, process notes, and preserved material from previous site archives.
Artist statement
Humour, theatre, animals, desire, and the handmade self.
Jeremiah’s work often begins where categories start to break down: between sacred and profane, animal and human, object and performer, joke and confession, mask and face.
The figure as a living thing.
Puppets sit close to the centre of Jeremiah’s broader practice. They bring together making, staging, voice, humour, character, and the odd emotional force of an object that seems to look back. A puppet is handmade, but it is also theatrical — a body, a personality, a joke, a confession, and sometimes a kind of self-portrait.
Animals, masks, and comic intelligence.
Birds, elephants, foxes, tigers, ostriches, and other creatures appear throughout the work as more than subjects. They carry attitude, tenderness, danger, absurdity, and strange forms of recognition. The animals often feel human without becoming human; they become a way to talk about care, performance, instinct, family, mischief, and desire.
The sacred, the stupid, and the strange.
Alongside the devotional and iconographic work, Jeremiah makes images that are dirtier, funnier, more unruly, or harder to place. Some pieces are tender. Some are crude. Some are theatrical. Some are religiously charged. The broader artist site gives that work a place to exist without forcing it into a quieter devotional frame.
About this archive
This site is designed as a flexible home for puppets, drawings, comics, masks, animals, performances, notes, and older material as the archive continues to grow.