Jamie Reid (Artist)

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Jamie Reid (born January 16, 1947 in London ) is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists . His work, cut with clippings from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note , was very close to the image of punk rock , especially in Great Britain. Reid's cover art helped define the aesthetic of the British punk movement with its faux ransom note letters and iconoclastic blemishes of pop culture and nationalist imagery.

Life

youth

Jamie Reid was born in Croydon , London in 1947 . He grew up in a politically active family. He went to John Ruskin High School. In 1970 he moved to central London. First he was at Wimbledon Art College, later at Croydon Art College. There he took part in a sit-in with Malcolm McLaren . Later moved to the Isle of Lewis .

Social commitment and private life

Reid has been involved in campaigns on topics such as the election tax, Clause 28 and the Criminal Justice Bill. I think I learned more about graphic design as a printer than three years in art school , he said, It gave me the ability to play around with things . God Save Our Forests is a portrait with which he campaigns for the preservation of the forests. Reid also did other work on issues related to climate change, economic instability and disarmament.

In October 2010, the US activist David Jacobs founded the situationist group Point-Blank! He denied that Reid created the Nowhere Buses graphic , which featured on the cover of the 1977 Sex Pistols single Pretty Vacant and was subsequently used multiple times for limited editions. Jacobs said the draft was his, he first created it in a brochure as part of a protest against urban transport in San Francisco in 1973. Reid admires the Occupy movement. Pussy Riot is supported by Reid with a poster that he designed after they were arrested for the first time.

Jamie Reid now lives in Liverpool . He was with his partner, actress Margi Clarke , for 17 years . You have a daughter.

art

Create

His style of collaging cut-out letters arose from the simple fact that he could n't afford to write through letters .

After the allegations Damien Hirst had sued a student for copyright infringement, Reid called him a “hypocritical and greedy art bully” in 2009 and, in collaboration with Jimmy Cauty, created his painting For the Love of Disruptive Strategies and Utopian Visions in Contemporary Art and Culture (German: Aus Love of disruptive strategies and utopian visions in contemporary art and culture) as a pastiche that replaces God save the Queen with God save Damien Hirst . Reid: 'Hirst and Emin are Thatcher 's children' (German: Hirst and Emin were evoked by Thatcher.) “I had forgotten how brave people can be in their art and how complacent people were. Everyone has got used to keeping the line. "

Works

Cover: Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (CD reissue with green border)

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 from 1976. It is based on a Cecil Beaton photograph of Queen Elizabeth II , with an additional safety pin through the nose. It has been described as the most iconic image of the punk era by The Observer's Sean O'Hagan . Reid produced a series of screen prints in 1997, the twentieth anniversary of the birth of punk rock . Ten years later, on the thirtieth anniversary of the release of God Save the Queen , he produced a new print titled Never Trust a Punk based on his original design. It was exhibited at the London Art Fair in Islington . Reid also produced artwork for world music fusion band Afro Celt Sound System . Jamie Reid created the ransom look for the Sex Pistols graphics while he was producing Suburban Press , a radical political magazine that he ran for five years. His exhibitions include Peace is Tough at the Arches in Glasgow and the Microzine Gallery in Liverpool. Reid has exhibited prints in the Aquarium Gallery since 2004. In May 2007 a May 1st retrospective was held. He now exhibits and publishes work in Steve Lowe's new project space, the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop in Clerkenwell, London. He is also represented by the John Marchant Gallery, which takes care of Reid's extensive archive. His first solo show in Los Angeles was in April 2012 at Shepard's Subliminal Projects Gallery. In 2016 his exhibition Casting Seeds took place. In 1997 there was also his exhibition Peace Is Tough in New York . The large retrospective XXXXX: 50 Years of Subversion and the Spirit shows half a century of his work on three floors in the Humber Street Gallery in Hull , England from October 19 to January 20. Reid: “It's interesting going through all my work, especially with the paintings, I'd forgotten how well I can paint! " (German: "It's interesting to go through all of my work, especially the paintings, I had forgotten how well I can paint!").

literature

  • Jamie Reid, Jon Savage : Up They Rise: The Incomplete Works of Jamie Reid Paperback - May 1, 1987, Published by Faber & Faber 1987-05 (1987), ISBN 0-571-14762-3 (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jamie Reid (British, born 1947). artnet, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Chris Heard: Art and style of punk's shocking past. BBC, October 7, 2004, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b c Jamie Reid Biography, Life, Interesting Facts. sunsigns, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Point blank! challenges Jamie Reid: 'We created the Nowhere buses'. paul gorman, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Emily Gosling: Seminal Punk Designer Jamie Reid on Politics, Pussy Riot + “Practical Magic”. eyeondesign, October 15, 2018, accessed on December 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b c Paul Moody: Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid: 'Hirst and Emin are Thatcher's children'. eyeondesign, October 15, 2018, accessed on December 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Abbie Wightwick: How Gazza helped Margi Clarke turn her life around. eyeondesign, February 24, 2012, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Artists flout copyright law to attack Damien Hirst. The Telegraph, October 18, 2018, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Jamie Reid Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the UK 1976; FiRST SiNgLE EMI 2566. MoMA, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Jamie Reid Artworks 1976. MutualArt, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Michael Dooley: Anarchy in LA: The Sex Pistols' Designer, Reloaded. PRINT, April 6, 2012, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Michael Dooley: Never Mind The Sex Pistols - here's Jamie Reid. confidentials, September 8, 2016, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  13. ↑ JAMIE REID. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  14. ↑ JAMIE REID XXXXX: FIFTY YEARS OF SUBVERSION AND THE SPIRIT. Humber Street Gallery, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Hannah Clugston: Jamie Reid XXXXX review - Britain's longest-reigning rebel. The Guardian, October 23, 2018, accessed December 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Reid, Jamie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH London