Snapshot 03: Jamie Reid

This Snapshot was based on work by Jamie Reid and installed whilst Professor Colin Fallow’s exhibition 'INTO THE LIGHT Jamie Reid: A Memorial Exhibition' was on display in the large ERL gallery space.


PRESS RELEASE FROM ERL EXHIBITION:

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INTO THE LIGHT is a tribute to the artist Jamie MacGregor Reid (1947 – 2023) containing artworks from his personal archive, the counterculture archives acquired by Prof. Colin Fallows for the LJMU Special Collections and Archives, and private collections. The exhibition was planned in the last year of Reid’s life and takes place as a memorial celebration of the artist’s work.

British artist, Jamie Reid, was a romantic, rebel, iconoclast, anarchist and lover of nature. Reid is known internationally as the art director and graphic designer of the Sex Pistols, creating the internationally impactful DIY aesthetic of punk – an immediately recognisable attitude and style that resonates across the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition aims to explore important stages of this influential artist’s work and includes rare and previously unseen works, artefacts, video and documentation.

The exhibition features a selection of drawings, paintings, posters, banners, videos, and publications including Reid’s seminal early-1970s Suburban Press, to his work with the Sex Pistols, and onwards to the 1980s and 1990s with various socio-political campaigns. In addition to his earlier work with Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, this exhibition features documentation of Reid’s collaborative work with international fashion houses including Comme des Garçons and Valentino. The natural world was an ever-present passion for Reid and his limited edition boxed loose-leaf book, Eight-fold Year (2015), together with documentation of his final large-scale land-art piece at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in St. Austell, Cornwall, are exhibited here for the first time.

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