Car-bon Miles (the re-cycled car)

This is a car powered by the occupants’ feet. It tackles the carbon miles issue with humour – the best way to get people thinking. It will be a converted Trabant, the smoke belching old East German car, which became an icon of reunification at the fall of the Berlin wall. Rather than scrapping old cars, to reinvent them as art is recycling and a great solution to the problem. Painted green and sporting pertinent graphics and other touches inside and out, it will be both funny and compelling.

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Jamie is going to use a Trabant, as 2007 is its 50th anniversary! Having ceased production in 1991 they are famous for being horribly polluting. To turn that on its head is a playful yet powerful statement. It is a fitting reincarnation for a car, which began life long before global warming but saw it become a frightening reality.

An Experimental Art degree and years on feature films make Jamie something of a maverick. Never shy of controversy, he explores the boundaries of what is possible and acceptable. His Contemporary Surrealist approach is characteristically controversial. Jamie’s sculptures fill London’s new Amora. Winner of the Erotic Signature sculpture prize and featured in the book, The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today, his stock, as they say, is rising.

To see more of Jamie’s work visit www.jamiemccartney.com

Here is Carbon-Miles in progress…