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Venus Jasper is a Queer visual artist, storyteller, world builder, singer-priestess, writer, and curator, based in Amsterdam.

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Writing

I’m a versatile writer specializing in (speculative) creative content, grant applications, and essays in both Dutch and English. Over the years, I’ve helped several artists, curators, and institutions secure funding from organizations such as the Mondrian Fund, AFK Amsterdam, Amarte and CBK Rotterdam. I've contributed to outlets like Mister Motley Magazine, Lost&Found Amsterdam, and Holy Male Magazine. In 2016, I published my debut novel, My Wavy Sarong. Since then I also maintain an online blog on art, ecology and culture; Dripstone.

2025 Fiction: Recipies & Forbidden Ointments, a selection of fictional political and personal recipes for The Course Book, printed and published by Set Seoul (KR).

2022 Fiction: Vessels of Hope, a speculative story on how the future can be saved by high-specialized seed bombs. Written for Neo-Metabolism/VOIZ (USA). Online only.
2021 Fiction: Holox Triad, a speculative fiction for the Envisioning Other Futures anthology, published in print by Other Futures Festival, Amsterdam (NL).
2020 Art essay: Op elkaar, met elkaar, voor elkaar. An essay for Mister Motley (NL). Online only.
2017 Non-fiction: Permaculture, a  text on permaculture and earth-based futurisms for the in-print green culture magazine O, Wonder! (NL).

2017 Long-poem: Scare the established order, by falling in love, deeply, with all things green, a text published as a A5-size riso-printed pamphlet with Onomatopee, Eindhoven (NL).
2016 Review of art event: Shine Bright Like a Diamond, review on a fantastic night at Lost&Found, Amsterdam (NL). Online only.

2016 [book] Autobiographical semi-fiction: My Wavy Sarong. An animistic and sensual semi-autobiographical short novel in which the reality of a white western youngster with shamanic aspirations ( 'T' ) meets up with the current reality of Indonesia while on an artistic research holiday. A deeply reflexive adventure that brings art and imagination to the fore as a process of reconciling worlds that sit uncomfortably together. You can get the book my shop. [ISBN 978-90-825277-0-4]

2014 Proze: Recipe #1 for essential liquids. For the Canada based niche-magazine Holy Male Magazine, I shared a part of my then upcoming novel My Wavy Sarong, with a text on liquids and queer rituals (CA). In print.

2013 Non-fiction: On the Cosmic Journey of a Body. A semi-autobiographical novelette about queer ritual magic and the Wounded Healer taking place between Iceland and New York / Fire Island Pines. A collection of thoughts on the body and ritual in relation to the work of AA Bronson, Alejandro Jodorowsky and late Genesis P-orridge. Download the PDF here. Hard-copies are very rare.

Ongoingly, from 2026 onwards, I write for my own Art, Ecology & Culture blog:Dripstone

Work for Clients


Successful grant applications were written for visual artists, curators and platforms: Imke Ruigrok, RE_NATURE, Annika Kappner, Bambi Benkö, Gabriel Fontana, MELKWEG Amsterdam, Death & Rebirth Festival and othersacquiring financial support from AFK Amsterdam, CBK Rotterdam, Mondrian Fund, The Creative Industries Fund NL.

Get in touch when you need a compelling proposal, funding application or creative writing—I’m here to help!