JAMIE REID ::::::::::::: POSTER MASTER!!!

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"Turns out I like these boys who break all the RULES!!!!

Sheer coincidence I'm sure.

Anyway, here we go again..." elle

INTRODUCING.....

Jamie Reid, 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.

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.

RULES, like buttons, are meant to be undone,

 and 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-establishment Big Name Artist. Reid is infamous as the agitator who put the safety pin through the Queen's lip to visually define punk, and it's 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 spirit's still firing, on all cylinders.

"All and all he seems like my kinda guy. Hope ya'll enjoyed! Thanks." elle