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 Jaq Belcher

Jaq Belcher is a New York-based artist working with handcut paper. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Belcher received her Bachelor of Arts from Melbourne University, studied gold- and silversmithing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and received her Master of Arts Administration degree from the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts.

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

    The vesica piscis forms in the paper can be made of two, three, four, five, or six cuts. They are either completely excised from the sheet, or left attached by a corner or small arc, and then raised to catch light and form shadow.

    Each cut is accounted for and the final