- Jamie Reid
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name = Jamie Reid
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birthdate = 1947
location =England ,UK
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nationality = English
field =Decollage
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works = "God Save the Queen", (1977)
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awards =Jamie Reid (born 1947) 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 ofpunk rock , particularly in the UK. His best known works include theSex 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 ".He was educated at John Ruskin Grammar School in
Croydon .Reid produced a series of screen prints in 1997, the twentieth anniversary of the birth ofpunk rock . Reid has also produced artwork for theworld music fusion bandAfro 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.
Since 2004, Reid has been exhibiting and publishing prints with the
Aquarium Gallery .In May 2007, a career retrospective for Reid, entitled "X Marks the Spot", was held in
Shoreditch ,London .Further reading
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Punk visual art External links
* [http://www.theaquariumonline.co.uk the aquarium]
* [http://www.jamiereid.uk.net Jamie Reid homepage]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/keep-warm-this-winter-make-trouble/ Interview with Reid at 3:AM Magazine]
* [http://www.lockandwardcouture Official clothing featuring Jamie Reid Artwork]
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