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Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid’s version of the original 1977 promotional poster produced as part of the campaign for the Sex Pistols ‘PRETTY VACANT’ single release. The buses were bricollaged situationists (who in turn got it from suburban press!)

Jamie Reid is the original unfastener of all that’s been held together and hallowed in Britain over the past thirty years. The image pirate, painter, and sloganeer remains the country’s top anti-establisment big name artist. Reid is as infamous as the vagitator who put the safety pin through the queen’s lip to visually define punk, and its icons, The Sex Pistols. But for him it was no hip fashion statement or career move. It was a chance to get visual and philosophical ideas through to the mainstream. And that wpirit’s still firing on all cylinders.

Now 53 and living in Liverpool with his wife and muse Maria, his works have been feted everywhere from the ICA in London to the Pompidou Centre in Paris. An artist with a capital ‘A’ whose ‘never mind the bollocks’ sleeve was voted second best ever by Rolling Stone Magazine, and an artist who you cannot get through art school without studying. From the thrash of punk music and ratttling monarchy crowns, Reid now exhibits his visuals in dance clubs and galleries on canvas, paper, cd-roms, cd sleeves and laser shows.