| JAMIE MCLEOD |
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| 8 Criminal-Lovers | xxxxxx |
| Jamie Mcleod is essentially an artist who brings together his passion for sex, art and rock and roll in a sleazetastic melee of demi-monde deconstruction. His all new screen-printed artwork uses classic poster boy pin-ups, found imagery and symbolism to create a post-punk mash-up of pretty boys with filthy minds and dirty words. Using the classic beatnik cut-up techniques of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Mcleod creates a new lingua franca from the verbal detritus of the streets. From reverse swastikas, poison labels, graffiti, to police cordon tape, it's all ripe for the twisting. It's like Rimbaud came back with a camera. These original screen-prints, t-shirts and photographs are all available in limited editions and are highly sought after. The brave may wear them and the faint hearted may find a space to hang them. Mcleod captures a multi range of subjects not simply as a voyeur but as a participant. He works with a curious hybrid of classic portraiture and design. Making graphic cinematic like cameos for his subjects to exhibit and metamorph themselves within.. He makes no delusions of tryng to capture the truth in fact I think he loves the lies and the cracks of the illusion more. His images are personal documents of his obsessions, and fantasy’s from his immediate social circles of family and friends or subcultures he has been introduced into. Which maybe his take on modern-day “pin-ups”, performers, transsexuals and their boyfriends in Istanbul clubs, wrestlers in Mexico City, club kids in Barcelona or death cults of America, or the urban signs and symbols of his mental metropolis. He photographs his desires through the body and etches the iconography of the city and its on its fleshy innards. It’s as if he conjures up images from hypnotic neon pulses. |
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| 9 Dead Boys (who did me wrong) | Limited photographic edition of 10 prints | 25,4 x 20,3 cm |
| Born in 1965 Photography B.A. in fine art at London College of Communication 1998 Turkish Wrestler exhibit at the Box gallery London April 2001 & Dec 2002 Marc Almond Adored and Explored exhibit at First Out, London, March 2001 Adored and Explored exhibit and book launch at AKA club, London Oct 2001 Performance Whores -First Out, London ( Jan 2002 ) The Lost Boys – First Out London ( July 2004 ) Future Map group show at the London Institute, Davis St London Oct 1998 London Institute show at the Mall Gallery's, the mall London, July 2006 Leben Lieben, Rise gallery, Neukolln, Berlin. October 2007. Free for Wall, the Brick Lane Gallery, London Aug 2008. |
| more informations: www.jamiemcleod.co.uk |
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| 16 Criminal Lovers | Limited photographic edition of 10 prints | 25,4 x 20,3 cm |
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| 25 Criminal Lovers | Limited photographic edition of 10 prints | 25,4 x 20,3 cm |
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| Come to daddy | Limited photographic edition of 10 prints | 25,4 x 20,3 cm |
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| Out of Service boy | Limited photographic edition of 10 prints | 25,4 x 20,3 cm |
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| Shut your mouth boy | Limited photographic edition of 10 prints | 25,4 x 20,3 cm |