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Writer, Musician and Painter extraordinaire

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Post feminist, post punk, and slightly emotional

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Special Offer PRINT 2 - God Save the Queen

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SIGNING EVENT SPECIAL

£100.00

TWO PRINTS FOR ONE

These prints are being offered especially for Jamie's signing event on the 13th September.

Print 1 is derived from one of Jamie's stunning glass pieces currently on exhibition at our gallery.

Print 2 is the classic God Save the Queen design taken from a very recent scan of the original collage.

Both will be signed by Jamie. If you want to have one or both dedicated to someone please buy the prints as normal and then send an e-mail to mollie@theaquariumonline.co.uk with you order number and dedication request.

The prints are 42cm x 30.5 cm on 315 gsm enhanced matt paper.

Edition of 100 numbered and signed by the artist.

Only 40 are available to buy on-line. The other 60 will be available at the aquarium on the 13th September.

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Jamie Reid profile

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“Beauty is the best weapon we've got. It's the one thing that the powers can't replicate.” Jamie Reid

Reid’s work has always involved a fusion of the political, the spiritual, and a culture in distress. Very often blurring the boundaries between art, design and critical response. It is now 30 years since he took the Beaton portrait of the Queen, tore out her eyes and mouth, put a safety pin through her lips and stuck swastikas in her eyes. These were not just a pieces of design, they were part of an assault on culture, and possibly the last time that art was truly shocking to the establishment whilst having a genuine radical effect on a whole generation.

Before this Reid had been at art college with Malcolm McLaren where he developed his interest in radical politics and situationist tactics, which in turn informed the visual language developed with the Suburban Press, a community free press based in the then ‘developing’ Croydon. In this early period it’s very clear to see the links between Reid’s concerns with the esoteric as well as the political, with colour and drawing as well as collage and direct graphics. These are all recurring throughout his career and to this day whether it be through social protest or intensely beautiful abstract paintings, Reid’s alternative vision is still as challenging and uncontainable as ever.

the aquarium has been working with Jamie since 2004 and have shown an exhibition of his recent work each year since then. We are also the primary publishers of his print editions and are working with X Marks Arts Management in the sale of his archive of original work that dates back to 1968.

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