Scissors. Blades. Punched holes. Woven strips of flesh and shadow pulled apart and rebuilt into something that refuses to sit still. That is the territory Jack Cuts works in, and it does not ask for your permission. His work makes a perfect addition to Inspiró magazine issue 3.
The UK-based queer multidisciplinary artist builds his practice from photographic imagery sourced directly from life models and the pages of queer magazines, pulling images out of their original context and dragging them through a visceral analog process. Cut, woven, punched. The body fractured. The body reconstructed. The body given back to the viewer without instructions.
There is no manifesto. No explanatory text taped to the wall. Jack Cuts has made a deliberate, even defiant choice to step back from the kind of artistic rhetoric that so often fills the space between a work and its audience.
"Artists have a great ability to talk about and analyse their work," he says. "To justify it and create a methodology around the subject or thought that interested them and spurred-on a creative process. This doesn't sit comfortably with me. I could dress up my work in rhetoric but I would rather the viewer find their own way through the pieces I create. There's a power in the giving back of something without words to explain it and to allow the viewer to determine their own response, whatever that might be."
That restraint is its own kind of force. In refusing to narrate, Jack Cuts trusts the work completely, and the work earns it. His collages do not hint at the body. They confront it. Skin interrupted by geometric cuts. Figures rewoven into new anatomies. The masculine form destabilised and reconstructed through physical intervention rather than digital manipulation. Every punch, every incision, every woven strip of magazine paper carries the weight of a hand that made a choice.
The analog method matters here. There is no undo button, no layer panel, no way to retreat once the blade has moved. What Jack Cuts produces exists as a physical object in the world, scarred and restructured by the making of it. The tactile reality of his process mirrors the subject matter in a way that clean digital compositing simply cannot achieve. These are images that have been through something.
That something is precisely what he will not define for you.
His work appears in Inspiró Magazine Issue 3, a 108-page luxury publication from The Male Muse featuring twelve international queer artists examining love, lust, vulnerability, and queer identity through photography and fine art. Carefully printed and curated, Inspiró has positioned itself as one of the most important platforms in contemporary queer visual culture, and Issue 3 is its most introspective and formally ambitious edition yet. Jack Cuts sits alongside a genuinely international lineup of artists whose work spans photography, illustration, and mixed media.
You can follow his ongoing practice on Bluesky at @follicles.bsky.social, where his self-described mission remains as direct as his technique: "artist making hand cut analog collage and exploring himself."
Pick up Inspiró Issue 3 from The Male Muse at themalemuse.store.
