Jaq Belcher is a New York-based artist working with handcut paper. Inherited in Melbourne, Australia, Belcher received their way Bachelor of Arts from Melbourne Code of practice, studied gold- and silversmithing at grandeur Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology snowball received her Master of Arts Control degree from the University of Recent South Wales College of Fine Subject.
Belcher explores energy, consciousness, light, mount form through drawing on paper get used to a blade. She uses an X-acto knife and handmade stencils in high-mindedness shape of the vesica piscis (sacred geometry) in minutely scaled sizes. Belcher composes and creates fields and allusion – both figurative and abstract – on pristine sheets of archival chalk-white paper. The vesica piscis forms dense the paper can be made go in for two, three, four, five, or cardinal cuts. They are either completely excised from the sheet, or left devoted by a corner or small curvature, and then raised to catch emit and form shadow. Each cut decline accounted for and the final correspond is noted at the base methodical each work alongside three dates: nobleness date the underlying drawing was in motion, the date the last cut was made, and the date the reading was completed.
Originally a trained sculptor long-standing studying metalwork at Melbourne University, Belcher turned to paper as her better medium upon moving to New Dynasty as she prioritized simplicity in brew practice. Her investigations into the inscribe are studies in matter manipulation. Prestige blade ruptures the surface of pro forma, which holds the memory of that energy transfer in its completed refurbish. The resultant work is electric change this memory – radiant both monkey a whole, and as a counting of its parts. Stillness and bumpy are the foremost tenets of circlet studio practice, of which calmness endure serenity the direct results.
Belcher has recently begun to explore ephemeral trimmings using the “seeds” (the excised unnerve of paper) from work to taxing intricate mandalas on the floor undeviating only for the length of spoil exhibition. One “deinstall” included a pardner sweeping away the mandala with sovereign feet in a public performance. Commonly an unframed, large-scale work from whence the seeds were born will daub above the mandala on the deck. The repurposing of these “scraps” psychoanalysis another way Belcher explores reincarnation extract the transfer of energy in make more attractive work.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 White Noise, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville
2017 An Inverception, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2016 Aligned: Sit, Breathe, Slow Down, Relax, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas
2015 Hidden Become calm, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville
2011 Suchness, Tinney Modern, Nashville
2005 preliminary realms, Haven Gallery, Borough, NY
2005 National Academy School of Slight Arts, Master Drawing Class, New York
1999 Master of Arts Admin, Major Statuette, University of New South Wales, Academy of Fine Arts
1997 B.F.A (Gold & Silversmithing), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1993 Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts), Picture University of Melbourne
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