Jamie Reid Dies: Artist And Graphic Designer For The Sex Pistols Was 76.
His gallerist, John Marchant, affirmed his passing. In a proclamation, he was depicted as a craftsman, dissenter, revolutionary, punk, flower child, radical, and heartfelt. Jamie abandons a dearest little girl Rowan, a granddaughter Rose, and a colossal inheritance.
Reid met future Sex Guns supervisor Malcolm McLaren at Croydon Workmanship School. That relationship bloomed into a coordinated effort on work of art for the Sex Guns.
Reid’s most popular work was for the Sex Guns covers including the pink and yellow text of their main collection, “Quit worrying about the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Guns, and God Save the Sovereign, the hit single restricted by the BBC. The last option included a Cecil Beaton photograph representation of Sovereign Elizabeth II destroyed by Reid.
He likewise contributed the crushed void photo placement for Pretty Empty and a doctored funny cartoon for Occasions in the Sun. His banner for the single Turmoil in the UK showed a torn association jack.
Later in his profession, he teamed up with craftsman Shepard Fairey and upheld the Possess and Pussy Mob developments.
In 2009, following charges that Damien Hirst was to sue an understudy for copyright encroachment, Reid called him a fraudulent and ravenous workmanship menace and as a team with Jimmy Cauty, delivered his For the Love of Troublesome Systems and Idealistic Dreams in Contemporary Craftsmanship and Culture picture as a pastiche, supplanting the God Save The Sovereign with God Save Damien Hirst.
Reid is additionally addressed by John Marchant Exhibition which cares for his broad chronicle.
In October 2010, U.S. dissident David Jacobs, the pioneer behind the mid-1970s Situationist bunch Point-Clear!, tested claims that Reid made the No Place Transports realistic which showed up on the sleeve of the Sex Guns’ 1977 single Pretty
Empty and has accordingly been involved ordinarily for restricted release prints. Jacobs said that he began the plan, which previously appeared in a handout as a feature of dissent about mass travel in San Francisco in 1973.
