God Save The Queen

Jamie Reid was a British artist best known for shaping the visual language of punk music through his décollage covers of the Sex Pistols’ albums Never Mind the Bollocks and Here’s the Sex Pistols, as well as their singles “Anarchy in the U.K.” and “God Save the Queen" which was lauded as "the single most iconic image of the punk era."

Through employing faux-ransom-note letters and iconoclastic defacements of pop culture and nationalistic images he defined a generation of angst and anarchism, his influence being felt throughout music and art to this day. His works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. Reid lives and works in London, United Kingdom.