Jamie Reid 

Jamie Reid is an English artist who was born on 1952. He was an English artist and anarchist.

Reid's works is said to have almost been the defining image of punk rock. These works were those that featured letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note. Some of Reid's most noticeable works include, "Anarchy in the UK" and "God Save The Queen". His God save the queen piece was based on a Cecil Beaton photograph of Queen Elizabeth II. 





This piece (image on the left) is called "God Save The Queen", this was used for one of the Sex Pistols' album cover. The fact that Reid was brave enough to deface and vandalise the image of a very well respected woman by displaying bold and outrageous writing shows that he is purposely trying to be rebellious. The rebellious theme of the image is further emphasised by the fact that the words on the face of the image seem to have been ripped from a newspaper or a magazine and have been placed to seem like a ransom note, similar to his other pieces.

In my opinion Reid tried to create an album cover that would make the viewers remember the image because of however they wanted to remember it, be it because they were outraged or because they were impressed with his creativity and bravery to deface the queen's image. 

Within my project, I created a Jamie Reid inspired piece. The image shows three images together in an attempt to make them all blend in to look like one in order to try and tell a story. I purposely made the images have a dark background apart from the sky. this was because i wanted the word "VIEWPOINT" to stand out as much as i could, I also used bright colours for the letters as well. I made the word viewpoint by cutting or ripping out every single one of the letters because i wanted to make the piece in a style of Jamie Reid. I also made all the letter slightly different sizes to mimic Reid's rebellious behaviour because i didn't want to make all the words the same size because that would mean I was playing by the basic rules of English.