Jamie Reid

Reids 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 over 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.