Jamie Reid

Art Brokerage: Jamie Reid British Artist: b. 1947-2023. Jamie Reid was born in London on 16 January 1947 and grew up in Croydon. He was educated at John Ruskin Grammar School. In 1962, he began to study at Wimbledon Art School, then enrolled in Croydon Art School in 1964. With Malcolm McLaren, he took part in a sit-in at Croydon Art School. Reid's work often featured letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note, particularly in the UK; he created the ransom-note style while he was designing for Suburban Press, a radical political magazine he founded in 1970. His best known works include the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and the singles Anarchy in the U.K., God Save the Queen (based on a Cecil Beaton photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, with an added safety pin through her nose and swastikas in her eyes, described by Sean O'Hagan of The Observer as "the single most iconic image of the punk era"), Pretty Vacant, and Holidays in the Sun. The image from God Save the Queen was named "the greatest record cover of all time" by Q magazine in 2011 and later became part of the collection in the National Portrait Gallery. 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", Reid produced a new print entitled Never Trust a Punk, based on his original design which was exhibited at London Art Fair in the Islington area of the city. He also produced artwork for the world music fusion band Afro Celt Sound System. Listings wanted.