News Release (13-11-07)
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JAG studio gallery welcomes Jamie McCartney and presents Julie-Anne Gilburt’s new ‘Lyrics and Acrylics’
(Press preview at 12pm 23 November)
Celebrated Brighton artist Julie-Anne Gilburt, owner of the trend-setting JAG studio gallery on Madeira Drive, has a new man in her life. International award winning sculptor Jamie McCartney has set up studio upstairs at the JAG and the marriage is proving a perfect match. You are invited to the first serious art party of the Christmas season to welcome Jamie on board, showcase his latest work and promote Julie’s completely new and innovative paintings on acrylic and her ‘Lyric’ paintings for EMI music.
DOUBLE TROUBLE begins with a private view weekend... on Saturday November 24th from 9am-5pm and Sunday 25th from 9am-9pm. Refreshments will be served all day accompanied by musical sets from DJ, ‘Some guy called Dean’ and acoustic guitarist Mick Taylor. The preview culminates with a party on Sunday 25th from 5-9pm. Jamie will give live celebrity casting demonstrations (details to be leaked to the press soon) on both days at 2ish as well studio tours. Car-bon Miles will also be on show outside the gallery, illuminated using only solar power. The show will continue until the next bi-monthly preview in January...
Hot from their joint success at the Macmillan De’Longhi Coffee Art Auction, Julie and Jamie are on a roll. This exclusive event, featuring Britain’s hottest living artists including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin raised thousands of pounds for the cancer charity. See www.jamiemccartney.com/latest.html
Jamie is an artist with a wide span of talents. Having moved to Brighton from London last year, his sculptures have become all the rage amongst Brighton’s celebrities and those in the know. He has two strong directions in his work. Most famous are his body sculptures moulded directly from the body and cast in anything from plaster to bronze. These are for sale through the gallery or you may commission your own piece. They have a unique realism and cover everything from beautiful casts of male and female torsos to portrait busts and children’s hands etc.
More infamous is his other direction; Jamie is a maverick artist with a strong conceptual edge. His new series of Neo Surrealist sculpture, entitled Sexidermy and Objets d’Aft combine such things as taxidermy, animal hides, objets trouvé, human teeth and sculpted body parts. These are characteristically controversial and typical of this artist who embraces unconventional materials. As well as the latest in these series, examples from Jamie’s exciting new celebrity casting project for charity will also be on display with live celebrity casting demos. This promises to be one hell of a show.
Jamie won the 2006 Erotic Signature sculpture prize for his piece The Spice of Life, created from 84 casts of people’s breasts and genitals in various states of arousal. It now features in the must have coffee table book, The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today. 2007 saw the opening of London’s Amora, which houses this and six of Jamie’s other sculptures on permanent display. He also won the Kyoto prize, at the UK’s first Art Car Parade, for Car-bon Miles, his absurd pedal-powered road car. Jamie’s stock is definitely rising…
Not content to rest on her laurels, Julie-Anne, already an accomplished artist, continues to grow and develop in innovative ways. Her latest series of work painted onto acrylic sheet and sandwiched in layers are quite extraordinary. Similar in style to her well-known seascapes and abstracts, but with an amazing new clarity and depth, these are surely the freshest movement in painting in years. Debuting here at the JAG, Brighton’s foremost artist run studio gallery, this is a chance to buy before they go to Harrods and other high class venues, where they will be on sale for several times more than you’ll pay buying direct from the artist.
Also premiering at the show will be Julie-Anne’s painted lyrics for EMI. Taking timeless phrases and song titles from their most famous tracks and graphically representing them in colourful 3D text on canvas, these paintings are a stunning departure from her more familiar work.
Double trouble also marks the start of the JAG Christmas Sale. Arch 280 will have reductions of up to 50%. Get the jump on your Christmas shopping, have a glass of fizz with us and enjoy the entertainment. This invitation is extended to your friends who may like to join in the fun. Please feel free to forward it on.
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JAG Gallery, Arch 283a Madeira Drive, Brighton (3 minutes walk east from Brighton pier)
Jamie: 01273 60 88 01 or 07961 338 045
Julie-Anne: 01273 62 17 77 or 07810 523 984
Email: jamie@jamiemccartney.com
info@julieannegilburt.com
Web: www.jamiemccartney.com
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