I am the lead artist and creative director of McCartney Arts Ltd art studios. We are a full service imagine, design, build and install fine art sculpture and photography studio incorporating Jamie McCartney Fine Arts, Brighton Body Casting, The Great Wall of Vulva and Great Wall Publishing under one roof.With over 30 years experience we envisage and fulfil all manner of fine art based briefs for UK and international clients. We work in numerous materials and processes from our new, purpose built, home studio in Manningtree, Essex, UK. We also set up overseas studios as necessary to service our international clients.I have a great team of expert artists, artisans and assistants who are a great bunch of skilled humans and work is never work!

My artworks demonstrate a career-long commitment to experimentation. Using the body as inspiration I work with both traditional and novel materials and processes, obsessively exploring the human condition. Not content with just making pretty pictures, there is often a sociopolitical agenda in my work, a result of my former life as an activist.I’m fascinated by the power of emotionally loaded objects and how to lend that power to my artworks. I’m interested in reprographic processes, dovetailing casting and photography into my working practice. I also like to use humour to break down barriers and encourage public engagement with tricky subjects.My recent solo exhibition, SKIN DEEP, in London featured over forty pieces focusing on beauty and society’s obsession with the physical self. This was the London debut of The Great Wall of Vagina sculpture, which next went on display at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan in 2012/13. It also saw the launch of the Physical Photography series of experimental, photographic, portrait collages. These portraits focus on personal expressions of sensuality and sexuality within the confines of societal and religious expectations and pressures.I am concentrating at the moment of figurative works in bronze, resins and animal hides as well as the photographic portraits. I also continue to work on my Objets d’Aft series in which whimsy and nonsense are the driving factors. In development as well are some large, long outcome assemblage projects that will see fruition in the next few years.I am represented in London by Hay Hill Gallery, Baker Street, in Las Vegas by Sin City Gallery and online by Saatchi. I am currently seeking further UK and overseas representation as well as a new agent in the UK and overseas. I am also seeking exhibiting opportunities and a permanent home for The Great Wall of Vagina.www.jamiemccartney.com

Owner and head sculptor at the UK's leading body casting business. We make sculptures cast from any part of the body including busts, torsos and whole bodies for private clients, the film industry and other artists.Our clients, which include The Royal Family of Liechtenstein, come from all over the world and fly us all over the world to realise their special projects. Google "Body Casting" - we are the top hit in the world.Originally based in central London, we moved to Brighton in 2006 and haven't looked back. It's the perfect city for a unique and eccentric business such as ours to flourish. We've become one of Brighton's top tourist attractions!

Choosing and liaising with artists, curating exhibitions, selling to private collectors, art finder service, managing my staff, having fun.

I write the arts pages for Brighton's leading lifestyle magazine. Features include:Sculpture Vulture - introducing Brighton to its public artworksGallery Spy - keeping an eye on Brighton's thriving gallery sceneFeatured Artists - showcasing the work of Brighton's best art talentArt News - the latest from across the art spectrumArty Bollocks - The philosophy of art as I see the art worldContact me with your stories: jamie.mccartney@absolutemagazine.co.uk

Impure Art is the only erotic art gallery in the UK and what better place than the naughty seaside town of Brighton! Famous for the bringing the notorious Madonna Nudes exhibition to the UK, Impure Art is already making huge waves in the art world.Situated in Ship Street Gardens, Brighton’s self-titled “naughty little alley” as it also plays host to the cult shop, She Said Erotic Boutique and my Brighton Body Casting studio. Impure Art deals in art broadly described as ‘anything from nude to rude’. From sensual feminine paintings, through humorous illustrations, breathtaking sculptures and saucy neon signs to spellbinding fetish photography the gallery’s self-imposed brief is to sell top quality art which fits the ‘impure’ remit. The high standard is what sets the gallery apart making it more “fur coat than dirty mac!”There is nowhere else in the UK to go and buy art like this. Customers can chose from hundreds of artworks from artists personally vetted by Nic and Jamie. And with new artists being regularly introduced and new artworks added every week, keeping the gallery fresh and exciting. Impure Art can also arrange for any of their artists whose style you like to create portraits and artworks specifically to suit your requirements.

Making models, props and special effects on many feature films, including Charlotte Gray, Blackhawk Down, Around the World in 80 Days, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and James Bond - Casino Royale.