The artist and anarchist behind the Intercourse Pistols’ iconic paintings, Jamie Reid, has died at 76.
John Marchant Gallery introduced the unhappy information of his loss of life on Wednesday (09.08.23).
In a touching ode, the gallerist wrote: “We sadly announce the passing of Jamie MacGregor Reid January 16, 1947 – August 8, 2023; artist, iconoclast, anarchist, punk, hippie, insurgent and romantic.
“Jamie leaves behind a beloved daughter, Rowan; a granddaughter, Rose; and an infinite legacy. Common Majesty, Verity, Love, Infinite.”
The punk visible artist – who was greatest recognized for Décollage, the other of a collage – created the ransom-note model newspaper slicing lettering that he famously used on the quilt of the Pistols’ 1977 tune ‘God Save The Queen’, depicting a younger Queen Elizabeth II with the observe’s title slapped throughout the royal’s eyes and mouth.
The long-lasting paintings was primarily based on Cecil Beaton’s {photograph} of the late monarch.
The Intercourse Pistols re-released their basic hit in time for the sovereign’s Platinum Jubilee final June. The tune, initially launched in 1977 throughout The Queen’s Silver Jubilee, was banned by the BBC and most radio stations however reached No. 2 within the UK Singles Charts. It’s broadly believed that the tune was intentionally stored from the No. 1 spot on the charts because of its anti-royal stance.
Reid created the lettering model whereas designing the Suburban Press, a radical political journal he ran for 5 years.
It was additionally used on the basic Pistols album ‘By no means Thoughts the B******s’ and the singles ‘Anarchy within the UK’, ‘Fairly Vacant’ and ‘Holidays within the Solar’.
In 2007, on the thirtieth anniversary of the discharge of ‘God Save the Queen’, the artist debuted the brand new print, ‘By no means Belief a Punk’, which was exhibited at London Artwork Honest.
In 2009, out of protest, after it was claimed that Damien Hirst was to sue a pupil for copyright infringement, Reid known as him a “hypocritical and grasping artwork bully” and teamed up with Jimmy Cauty to supply his ‘For the Love of Disruptive Methods and Utopian Visions in Up to date Artwork and Tradition’ picture as a pastiche changing ‘God Save The Queen’ with’ God Save Damien Hirst’.
A 12 months later, David Jacobs, a founding member of the US Situationist group Level-Clean!, dared Reid to make the ‘Nowhere Buses’ graphic which appeared on the sleeve of ‘Fairly Vacant’.
It first appeared in a pamphlet for a protest about mass transit in San Francisco in 1973
Born in London in 1947, Reid handed away in Liverpool, the place he had lived for a few years.
