March 2026
Drawing Out a New Torah
To draw out a new Torah is to use artistic engagement as a way of thinking that raises voices previously not included in traditional learning.
Jacqueline Nicholls is a London based fine artist, Jewish educator, and award winning visual poet. She uses art to engage with traditional Jewish ideas in untraditional ways. Her main focus of her artistic practice is to consider handwriting as a form of drawing. Her drawing project, Draw Yomi, completed in Jan 2020, Jacqueline drew the Talmud, following the Daf Yomi schedule. She regularly teaches at the London School of Jewish Studies. Jacqueline’s art has been exhibited in solo shows and significant contemporary Jewish Art group shows in the UK, USA and Israel. Jacqueline has an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Art. Recent residencies include ‘Wasted Books’ at The London Library, ’50 Jewish Objects’ Jewish Studies Department, Manchester University, and Beit Venezia, where she was the lead artist for New Venice Haggadah (2016) and the Deck of Esther (2022), reimagining Megillat Esther as a pack of playing cards.
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