Jamie Reid
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Jamie Reid (born 1947), educated at John Ruskin Grammar School in Croydon, is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK. His best known works include the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and the singles "Anarchy in the UK", "God Save The Queen", "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun".
Reid produced a series of screen prints in 1997, the twentieth anniversary of the birth of Punk rock. Reid has also produced artwork for the world music fusion band Afro Celt Sound System. Jamie Reid created the ransom-note look used with the Sex Pistols graphics while he was designing Suburban Press, a radical political magazine he ran for five years.
For the last three years Reid has been exhibiting and publishing prints with the Aquarium Gallery.
In May 2007 an event known as X Marks the Spot will take place in Shoreditch London to celebrate the life and work of Jamie Reid. Opening on Mayday with a festive spirit, this event will include several locations where his current work can be viewed as well as a comprehensive flyposting of the area with over 35 years worth of work. Running in parallel with this will be an exhibition at the aquarium's L-13 gallery on Farringdon Rd which will show a selection of important pieces from Reid's own collection. This will be the first time that any of these pieces will be openly offered for sale.
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