Jeremy W. Smith is an award-winning Sydney-based curator, artist and researcher specialising in LGBTQIA+ history, community storytelling and drawing. He was part of the inaugural curatorial team that helped establish Qtopia Sydney, contributing curatorial research and exhibition development for the museum’s 2024 opening, including co-developing Qtopia’s foundational timeline of queer history with leading historians. His inaugural exhibition, We’re Here, We’re Queer, received the 2025 Museums & Galleries NSW IMAGinE Award for Best Exhibition Project (Medium Organisation).

Jeremy is currently finalising his PhD in Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design, where his research pioneers new methodologies for visualising queer histories and geographies through hand-drawn counter-mapping, a practice he terms “intersubjective counter-cartography.” An advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, he contributed lived-experience testimony to the successful campaign to outlaw conversion practices in NSW in 2024. In recognition of his artistic and community leadership, he was appointed Qtopia Sydney’s inaugural Artist Ambassador in 2025.

Beyond Qtopia Sydney, Jeremy is the co-founder and a curator of Draw Space, Sydney’s only gallery dedicated to drawing, and his artistic work is represented in major Australian collections including the State Library of NSW, the University of Sydney Fisher Library, the Australian National Maritime Museum and Anti-Discrimination NSW.