The Artist

To fund his experimental art habit and grand schemes such as The Great Wall of Vagina Vulva! Jamie runs a successful, commercial sculpture studio alongside his fine art practice. Specialising in taking moulds from the body to turn into sculptures, the studio produces commissioned artworks for the public and other artists in a huge range of materials including fibreglass, glass, bronze and other metals. This work takes him all over the world and his clients include celebrities, royals and well known billionaires.

The complex moulding and casting processes Jamie uses he learnt during his many years as a prop and model maker and special effects technician in the film industry, working on such films as Casino Royale and V for Vendetta. Prior to that Jamie ran a metal forge, making animal sculptures in steel but it was, “too hot and sweaty, I was constantly burning myself and I stank. So I ran away to join the film biz.”

Born in London’s swinging sixties to an artist mother and engineer father, making things for a living was always on the cards. “I spent my young life in museums and galleries. “When I first saw Dali’s Lobster Telephone I was transfixed. Anything could be art! I knew this art making malarkey had to be my path. In a mad world it’s the only things that made sense.”

As a teen Jamie crewed on MONDCIVITANO, a peace boat in the Atlantic, spreading the concept of world citizenship. Literally learning the ropes of grass roots, direct action, Jamie’s socio-political whistle was also whetted. Soon after that experience, with the tutelage of some highly inspirational and politically motivated art professors at Hartford (Krzysztof Wodiczko, Peter Mclean and Chris Horton) Jamie learnt to combine that passion with his art. He hasn’t looked back.