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Anyone looking for an intro to his work could do worse than getting a copy of this.

The specials are long gone but the standard edition is still a great book.

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Terrible news! One of the most iconic artists of all time in my opinion. RIP

Very sad news - RIP Jamie Reid - a legend for ever

GOD BLESS JAMIE REID

Rock save the Jamie Reid

Strangely I just bought a gold/ blue God save the Queen print signed and numbered from 1997 after admiring one in a friends house for years.
Another print Artist friend who trained at Croydon ( where Jamie Reid trained) told me he opened a draw once in their print room and found a lot of work pre Sex Pistols but in the style of Never mind the B....... He asked if he could take one and then when he looked next time they were all gone. I hope Croydon collage have kept them for their Achive.
Rest in peace JR

Really sad news - could never confuse his work for anyone elses. Glad to have a few small bits.

JAMIE REID
LOVE ALWAYS
R.I.P.
For those who haven’t heard already, we are very sad to announce the death of Jamie Reid, 16 January 1947 – 8th August 2023.

Our thoughts are with his family, friends and all those he touched around the world with his love. His reach was wide.

Jamie was also one of the fundamental foundation stones and building blocks of all we do at L-13.

Before I met him our first not-art event (I refuse to call it an exhibition) was an inquiry into the Situationists (The SI and After: What is Living and What is Dead in the Situationist International, the aquarium, 2003) in which a full set of Suburban Press publications was a prize item on display.

I met him shortly after as he became involved in the Stop the War Coalition protests against the war in Iraq, lending some work for a fund-raising show of art against war - Pax Britannica: A Hellish Peace, the aquarium, 2004. Other artists involved were a little-known Banksy, and art luminaries such as Anthony Caro, David Hamilton, Ralph Steadman and STOT21stCplanB – to name a few. Jimmy Cauty and Billy Childish also muscled their way in at some point, but initially it was Jamie I was most interested in.

When Jamie came to visit we hit it off immediately – sharing a keen sense of humour, critical disdain and love of creativity and human potential in equal measure – him settling into the L-13 sofa to chain smoke and bat the wind as I rushed around doing stuff.

We quickly decided we should do a show of Jamie’s paintings on slate later that year, and as they say, the rest is history.

The paintings on slate were not the Dada-esque Situationist graphics he was best known for, but beautiful, intensely-coloured cosmic compositions painted on ancient slate (some of which came from his own roof). We also made some insane wallpaper to line the gallery walls, a crated edition of screen-printed slates, and numerous prints to support the show. Many people didn’t get it of course. The words ‘new age’, ‘hippie’ and ‘shit’ were bandied about a fair bit, but we didn’t care. It was a great show and the start of a beautiful relationship.

Jamie was also canny enough to know that by publishing editions of an old biddy in a crown or some other graphic work related to a band he once helped define we could support his less commercial work and put food on the table for his and my families. He’d signed away some rights to exploit the said band but we always found ways to re-invent or side-step any issues – or steamroller through with blatant disregard. Never Trust a Punk from 2007 was one of my favourites.

In 2007 we collaborated with John Marchant Gallery in doing an amazing exhibition of work from Jamie’s archive: May Day May Day (THE AQUARIUM L-13, 2007). When we closed down our space on Farringdon Road to reinvent ourselves as the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop and stopped doing ‘exhibitions’, John stepped in more to help administer the archive and do exhibitions with Jamie. Also curating survey shows around the world culminating with the excellent critically-acclaimed retrospective Jamie Reid XXXXX: 50 Years of Subversion and the Spirit (Humber Street Gallery, Hull, 2019), for which we project managed and co-published the even more excellent accompanying book Jamie Reid XXXXX.

Our collaborations continued with Jamie until his last days. He took our Sophie under his wing and was her biggest fan. Encouraging her in her own work as Foxtrot Lightning and making collaborative political work with her other persona Sister Voila.

Some things planned will now never be fulfilled. We were due to release a special signed edition of his book Rogue Material’s for Rough Trade – complete with a “Rough Trade Welcomes Shoplifters” sticker, but sadly never got the bookplates and photocopies to him to sign. He was also keen to do a collaboration with Not Banksy which would have been a great laugh, but sometimes there are just not enough hours in a day or days in a life.

So Jamie… you crazy old rogue: Peace, love and eternal bliss.

You’re in our hearts always.

Steve Lowe, 2 days on, 2023.

And I didn’t mention the Sex Pistols once! … oops

P.S.
Sophie says:
He had a big heart and cared deeply, about people and nature.
Full of infectious joy & enthusiasm for activism and protest movements, matched by a fierce disdain of authority and injustice.
A believer in the mystical, in people power, in mother nature.
Keep warm, make trouble, wherever you are, and hope you are having a rave up with the ancestors. All love x
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Very sad, he was a good guy ! RIP

... and here's a little Jamie 'prop' from The Great Rock and Roll Swindle.

where it started for me ... still hanging in our hall... all 6 foot of it

It was £240. Now it’s enquire.
Congrats to those who added to basket.

New version of Jamie’s recent book here

www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/jamie-reid/rogue-materials-1972-2021?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-l13lightindustrialworkshop&utm_content=later-36873858&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

In fact they wont sell it, as Jamie ( rip) did not sign them.
they will sell this Memorial Edition ( seems sold out now )  instead but it snot the same … I dong know why they still write “ signed “