Jamie

This profile was edited with MySpace Profile Editor MySpace Profile Editor 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.