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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 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".
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 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.
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