Jamie Reid is an artist whose work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note, defines the image of Punk Rock. His best known works include The Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and the singles "Anarchy in the UK" and "God Save the Queen". The God Save the Queen piece was based on a Cecil Beaton photograph of the Queen with an added safety pin through her nose and swastikas in her eyes. The design was then changed into a ransom note style with the Union Jack as a background.
The song was released during the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977. It was a very controversial piece and regarded as an assault on the Queen.
Here are some more of his Bricolage Designs:
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| Rotten Bar Anarkee-Ora (1979), Letraset and collage on paper |
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| Pretty Vacant (1977), Bromide collage on paper with pencil |
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| El Paradise/Nashville/100 Club Flyer Collage (1976) Photoprint collage with gouache tip-in on paper. |
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