Born: 1947 
Gender: Male
Nationality: British

Jamie Reid was brought up in Croydon London and came from a very politically active family. During his time studying at Croydon art college he was involved in the student movement of ‘68 organising an occupation of the collage along with Malcolm McLaren.

On leaving Croydon Art College in 1970 he co-founded the suburban press where he developed his unique style of cut up graphics and sloganeering. The Croydon based magazine fused local politics with agit-prop graphics and situatoionalist slogans.

In 1976 he got back together with Malcolm McLaren to work on his new music based project The Sex Pistols. Here Jamie Reid produced some of his best known works, including the Cecil Beaton silver jubilee portrait of the queen with a safety pin through her nose, and the cover for ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ which came in at number two in a Rolling Stone Magazine poll of the best rock album sleeves of all time. He also worked on the Sex Pistols film ‘The Great Rock and Roll Swindle’

Jamie has continued his collaborations with the music industry until the present day designing album covers for bands including Afrocelt Sound System, and the interior of the strongroom Recording Studio in Shoreditch.

In 2000 Jamie was commissioned to design the Magic Room in the Pelirocco Hotel in Brighton England, which offers rooms with décor inspired by British youth cults, and counter culture icons. The Magic room is decked out in shocking pink and florescent yellow, with works by Jamie Reid on the walls, and his designs printed on the curtains and wallpaper.

More recently he has been producing works as part of his Eight Fold year series, of silkscreen prints on slate, based around the eight festivals dividing the druidic year. Although this may seem a long way from the punk roots of his work, Jamie says "All that I have been doing is re-adapting my work from the late-6o’s and early 70’s into different contexts and continuing with the same themes and messages"