Jamie reid cause of death
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Remembering Jamie Reid, a protest artist to the end and the man behind the shocking visual impact of the Sex Pistols
The international attention that Jamie Reid’s death has garnered has been astonishing, from the LA Times to the Hong Kong Daily News, television, radio, and the enormous electronic screen at London’s Victoria station beaming down the news to scurrying commuters. Somehow this level of attention for a dead artist seems way greater that anything we are used to in the hermetic art world. Why has it happened? Because Jamie Reid’s work, from his breakout artwork for Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols in the late 1970s to the timeless, spiritually and druidically inspired land art of his final years, had a profound affect on British popular culture way beyond that of almost any artist I can think of. And Reid was most certainly an artist, a classically trained one, with a daily practice. It is just that his most effective medium was the ether, and that is a place where the ineffable exists.
I first met Reidwhen I was tasked with organising a big retrospective of his
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Jamie Reid is an English artist, whose works, featuring letters cut out from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom notes were one of the defining images of punk rock in the UK. Achieving worldwide acclaim with the explosion of punk on the 1970’s music scene, Jamie Reid worked with the Sex Pistols creating the iconic album covers for God Save the Queen and Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.
Born in 1947 and raised in Croydon, London, Jamie Reid comes from a very politically active family. The artist uses his creative voice to shout about the most contentious of political issues: nuclear weapons, racism, the criminal justice system. Keen to highlight ways in which we can mobilise our energy and spirituality his work is collected by celebrities including Vivienne Westwood, Madonna and Angelina Jolie. Reid explains:
There have been two sides of my work – the esoteric and the political... I’m a druid and I’ve always believed that, much as you need a political change, you also need spiritual change.
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Jamie Reid
English visual artist (1947–2023)
For other people named Jamie Reid, see Jamie Reid (disambiguation).
Jamie Macgregor Reid (16 January 1947 – 8 August 2023) was an English visual artist. His best known works include the record cover for the Sex Pistols single "God Save the Queen", which was lauded as "the single most iconic image of the punk era."[1]
Early life and education
Jamie Macgregor Reid was born in London on 16 January 1947 and grew up in Croydon.[2] He was educated at John Ruskin Grammar School.[3] In 1962, he began to study at Wimbledon Art School, then enrolled in Croydon Art School in 1964.[4] With Malcolm McLaren, he took part in a sit-in at Croydon Art School.[5][6]
Career
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.[7][8] His best known works include
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