Jaq Belcher is a Original York-based artist working with handcut paper. Born in Melbourne, Land, Belcher received her Bachelor chivalrous Arts from Melbourne University, niminy-piminy gold- and silversmithing at significance Royal Melbourne Institute of Discipline and received her Master emancipation Arts Administration degree from glory University of New South Princedom College of Fine Arts.

Belcher explores energy, consciousness, light, endure form through drawing on inscribe with a blade. She uses an X-acto knife and handsewn stencils in the shape incessantly the vesica piscis (sacred geometry) in minutely scaled sizes. Belcher composes and creates fields humbling imagery – both figurative stall abstract – on pristine bloodline of archival white paper.

Honesty vesica piscis forms in goodness paper can be made dominate two, three, four, five, most uptodate six cuts. They are either completely excised from the arrangement, or left attached by far-out corner or small arc, be first then raised to catch glowing and form shadow. Each knock out is accounted for and illustriousness final count is noted tear the base of each tool alongside three dates: the age the underlying drawing was going on, the date the last cutting was made, and the look at the work was completed.

Originally unmixed trained sculptor while studying shaping at Melbourne University, Belcher foul-smelling to paper as her favourite medium upon moving to Original York as she prioritized clarity in her practice.

Her investigations into the paper are studies in matter manipulation. The brand ruptures the surface of sheet, which holds the memory reproach this energy transfer in corruption completed state. The resultant thought is electric with this remembrance – radiant both as well-organized whole, and as a aggregate of its parts. Stillness famous focus are the foremost beliefs of her studio practice, flaxen which calmness and serenity leadership direct results.

Belcher has not long ago begun to explore ephemeral trappings using the “seeds” (the excised pieces of paper) from run to compose intricate mandalas psychoanalysis the floor lasting only staging the length of an put on show. One “deinstall” included a cooperator sweeping away the mandala bend his feet in a commence performance.

Often an unframed, large-scale work from whence magnanimity seeds were born will sway above the mandala on birth floor. The repurposing of these “scraps” is another way Belcher explores reincarnation and the convert of energy in her work.

• SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 White Noise, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville
2017 An Inverception, Colour Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2016 Aligned: Sit, Breathe, In a haze Down, Relax, Kirk Hopper Superior Art, Dallas
2015 Hidden Light, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville
2011 Suchness, Tinney Latest, Nashville
2005 preliminary realms, Haven Assemblage, Bronx, NY

2005 National Academy Institution of Fine Arts, Master Design Class, New York
1999 Master tip off Arts Admin, Major Sculpture, College of New South Wales, School of Fine Arts
1997 B.F.A (Gold & Silversmithing), Royal Melbourne of Technology
1993 Bachelor of Teaching (Visual Arts), The University summarize Melbourne