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Jamie McCartney (born 1975) is a professional artist working in many disciplines. He lives in Brighton, England. Maintaining that the naked body is still a controversial subject, he is most famous for his ten paneled wall sculpture The ''Great Wall of Vagina'', comprising plaster casts taken from 400 women volunteers' genitals. Often using the body as inspiration he works with both traditional and novel materials and processes, exploring the human condition and themes of religion, sexuality and death. ==Work== The main body of McCartney's work has been three-dimensional, often experimental in approach and frequently sociopolitical. Lately he has turned to photographic collage, creating life size body portraits using his own experimental methods. McCartney won his second public award for his pedal-powered road car Car-Bon Miles at the UK’s first Art Car Parade.〔(Morley, Jacqui. "Jamie's green machine", ''Blackpool Gazette'', 8 October 2007 )〕 In 2008, McCartney, based at JAG Gallery, Brighton, auctioned off a sculpture of a death mask of his father's face as part of the Men Only exhibition which raised £500 for prostate cancer charity Everyman. McCartney called the piece "After". He was quoted as saying,"I’d never done anything like this before, but I wanted to address how I was feeling after my father’s death and reflect it in my art".〔(Chiles, Andy. "Artist sells cast of dead father's face for £500", ''The Argus'', 19 September 2008 )〕 The ''Great Wall of Vagina'' comprises 400 plaster casts of women’s genitals arranged in ten panels, the polyptych spans nine meters in length. According to McCartney, the idea was sparked by the trend for the "designer vagina", where women resort to cosmetic surgery for a certain look. It was exhibited in Berlin in September 2008, and the following month in Brighton.〔(Addicott, Ruth. "Breaking the mould", ''The Argus'', 20 October 2008 )〕 His collection "Skin Deep", first shown at The Hay Hill Gallery on London's Cork Street, focuses on notions of beauty and sexuality. His two photographic series "Physical Photography" and "The Sum of Our Parts", concentrate again on the human form, using a document scanner to create a body image in abstract form. The artist refers to this as Neo-Cubism. McCartney also creates more conceptual pieces. His ''Messages in Bottles'' relied on chance and the collaboration of strangers to bring to fruition. His experimental "Sculptography" collaboration with photographer, Miss Aniela, is a further example of his experimental work, as is his "Scanography" series. In addition he is frequently commissioned to create one-off designs of furniture etc. for business and private clients, with the help of a large team of student volunteers under his name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jamie McCartney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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