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Jamie McCartney

Latest News…

Latest News…

Artist Visit

AUSTRALIA

I’ll be visiting galleries, potential clients and business up and down the East Coast. Msg if you’d like to be on the list…

Hobart * Melbourne * Coffs Harbour * Brisbane * Noosa * Sydney

Carved Spiral Torso

Commission in Michelangelo Marble

Unique sculpture commissions for the home and garden. Shipping worldwide.

Created for a couple in Chicago USA

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Physical Photography – Body Portraits – series 1

Available ready-to-hang or print only

Unique and intimate, experimental portraits. Very limited editions. Shipping worldwide.

Read about the unusual no-camera technique…

About The Artist

About The Artist

About Jamie McCartney

Multi-disciplinary Artist

I have been a professional artist for over 30 years, working largely in figurative sculpture and photography. I take a multidisciplinary approach, creating highly finished, museum quality artworks from my UK studio.

Social & Political Artworks

After crewing a peace boat as a teenager I went to art school full of enthusiasm for direct action, where my professors, who were all political artists, nurtured that zeal. I remain an enthusiastic proponent of art as an engine of social change. A picture IS worth a thousand words…

Sculpture

I work in many materials including bronze, steel, glass, marble, fibreglass and found objects. As well as nudes I’m known for my genital sculptures: Some are social commentary and others are simply humorous but they appear to have started a movement…

Photography

I have developed an experimental photographic technique using an adapted document scanner as a digital camera. The images have a decidedly painterly look and feel, taking photography in its literal sense of ‘painting with light’.

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Bra Spangled Banners

My latest photographic series are national flags made from hundreds of volunteers in their underwear, raising funds and awareness to combat the scourge of breast cancer.

The Great Wall of Vagina Vulva!

1 Man, 5 Years, 400 Women – “Showing normal vulva diversity and combatting genital shame” was the ethos behind this world famous sociopolitical artwork, which has recently been retitled to reflect the trends in common parlance…

Jamie McCartney Jamie McCartney

Multi-disciplinary Artist

I have been a professional artist for over 30 years, working largely in figurative sculpture and photography. I take a multidisciplinary approach, creating highly finished, museum quality artworks from my UK and USA studios.

Jamie McCartney Jamie McCartney

Social & Political Artworks

After crewing a peace boat as a teenager I went to art school full of enthusiasm for direct action, where my professors, who were all political artists, nurtured that zeal. I remain an enthusiastic proponent of art as an engine of social change. A picture IS worth a thousand words…

Sculpture

I work in many materials including bronze, steel, glass, marble, fibreglass and found objects. As well as nudes I’m known for my genital sculptures: Some are social commentary and others are simply humorous but they appear to have started a movement…

Photography

I have developed an experimental photographic technique using an adapted document scanner as a digital camera. The images have a decidedly painterly look and feel, taking photography in its literal sense of ‘painting with light’.

Jamie McCartney Jamie McCartney

Bra Spangled Banners

My latest photographic series are national flags made from hundreds of volunteers in their underwear, raising funds and awareness to combat the scourge of breast cancer.

Jamie McCartney Jamie McCartney

The Great Wall of Vagina

1 Man, 5 Years, 400 Women – “Showing normal vulva diversity and combatting genital shame” was the ethos behind this world famous sociopolitical artwork, which has recently been retitled to reflect the trends in common parlance…

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Exhibitions & Events

Exhibitions & Events

The debut show of newly-released, miniature, surrealist, figurative bronzes with life-size works.

Alongside celebrated Suffolk painters and sculptors

Ballroom Arts gallery 25 – 30 July 2024

Aldeburgh, Suffolk

A pre-release test show of miniature, surrealist, figurative bronzes

Alongside the life-size works that inspired them

Eastcliff House gallery 6 & 7 July 2024…

Manningtree, Essex

The Chelsea Arts Club Charity Art Auction

Benefits young and distressed artists

My contribution, For the Average Man, tangentially addresses the theme of “All that Life Can Afford”. Apparently the average man sleeps with six women in his life. Really?! LOT 116

Grab artworks by famous names at bargain prices – all for a great cause!

Ukraine war fundraising

Peace Machine #2 – Now on display at Brighton Museum

Raising Money for Ukrainian Children – DONATE HERE!

This vending machine artwork dispenses casts of bullets and shrapnel from the War in Ukraine. Raising money for a small Ukrainian charity providing vital psychological assistance for child victims of the war.

Read my Ukraine story and please donate if you can – click below for details…

The Great Wall of Vagina Vulva! on show in Miami!

November 28 2022 – December 31 2025

The Wilzig Museum is exhibiting The Great Wall of Vagina Vulva! as the centrepiece of their new development. Also referred to as WEAM this contemporary art museum with a focus on erotic and figurative work is fast becoming the go to tourist attraction in South Beach.

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The Great Wall of Vagina Vulva! is also in Lisbon, Portugal

June 25 2022 – March 8 2023

MU-SEX is now exhibiting a photographic copy of The Great Wall of Vagina Vulva! at ‘Amor Veneris’, their inaugural show, featuring many of the world’s most engaging feminist artists. They had the actual sculpture for 5 months until it went to Miami but as the most popular work in the show they optioned to retain a copy.

Sensual Expression - exhibition - Tallinn

Now on show at Hearts Art & Diamond Gallery – Tallinn, Estonia

June 2022 – June 2023

Hearts Art Gallery is featuring my latest genital panel artworks at their highly anticipated show, Sensual Expression.

Jamie McCartney The Sum of Our Parts show flyer Hay Hill Gallery 2022

The Sum of Our Parts

10 Year Retrospective – Hay Hill Gallery, Online

November 02 – 30 2022

Hay Hill Gallery presents a show highlighting a decade of my work with the human body, from 2012 to 2022.

Other News

Other News

an assembly of five clear glass casts of the inside of vaginas and outside of the vulva

Internal Affairs – series 1 – photographic print

The Instagram phenomenon is now on sale!

The first of its kind print that made Instagram blow up! Limited edition of 100. Shipping worldwide.

Read about how these unique glass casts are made…

A candid interview with me by the Shunga Gallery’s

erotic art expert Marijn Kruijff on what makes me tick…

I discuss the influences and purposes behind my famous works and why I do what I do, with particular reference to my extensive collection of Japanese Shunga prints.

The whole article is now published, in two parts, on the Shunga Gallery website: