Artist and graphic designer Jamie Reid—the creator of, most famously, the cover art for the Sex Pistols 1976 “Anarchy in the U.K.” and 1977 “God Save the Queen” singles—has died at the age of 76.
singles—has died at the age of 76. The “Anarchy” single featured a torn and tattered Union Jack flag beneath ransom-note-like décollage lettering torn from newspapers that spelled out “Sex Pistols”; Reid’s “God Save the Queen” artwork, more notoriously, featured his defacement of Cecil Beaton’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, replete with a safety pin through her mouth.
. Six years later, when McLaren was putting together what became the Sex Pistols out of the Kings Road fetish-gear shop, Sex, that he ran with Vivienne Westwood, Reid became the de facto art director of the Pistols. While the Sex Pistols’ brief run of infamy imploded by January of 1978, after their brief American tour, Reid created art, lectured at schools, designed a recording studio, and protested everything from anti-gay legislation to Damien Hirst. More recently, he created savage artworks deriding Donald Trump and celebrity culture in general. A 1987 collection of Reid’s work,, which also featured interviews and text from author and noted punk historian Jon Savage, collected his work up to that time.
In later years, Reid collaborated with Shepard Fairey, the Occupy movement, Pussy Riot, and Extinction Rebellion. His work is in the collections of MoMA, the Tate Gallery, Houston’s Museum of Fine Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other institutions. Summing up his career and his way of life in a 2015 interview, Reid said: “Our culture is geared towards enslavement—for people to perform pre-ordained functions, particularly in the workplace. I’ve always tried to encourage people to think about that and to do something about it.”
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