Research for Altered States Project Display - Jamie Reid

Below is my final display for the Altered States project, as well as some feedback from fellow artists and creators within UCA, which I found to be very valuable and interesting. It was very intriguing for me to gain an insight into how other people viewed and perceived my own work. I created this body of work purely by experimentation, every single detail was something I'd tried out and thought to myself, 'oh, that looks good'. The ink blots, the layered photos as well as the typography was all experimented. I tried to think outside the box as much as possible for this display, as I didn't want it to be just a 'here is my artwork, what do you think', it was meant as a creative expression of work made out of my different works over the course of this project.

Research

After I made this I noted some links to different artists. Admittedly, during the process of making these works I never thought about the work and styles of other contemporary artists; as I was kind of wrapped up inside what I could make of it simply by using my own intuition; if I'm totally honest. However it can be interesting to look at where your own work lies in terms of popular culture, and what it's similar to, and what it compares with. I saw a clear link with the work of Jamie Reid especially.

Jamie Reid (1947-)

Jamie Reid, an English artist and anarchist, created iconic works best known for cut up letters from newspaper headlines into messages like ransom notes, which became a defining image of the punk-rock movement in the UK. I find that interesting personally, as this is the style of music (punk/alternative rock) I have come to love and it is interesting to see that being expressed in my work in the display, similar to the works of Jamie Reid.

One of his best known works included the album cover for the only 'Sex Pistols' album - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols - which is believed to have given rise to the punk movement in the late 70s in the UK.

The frontman, Johnny Rotten created a global phenomenon of punk rock, with his pointed, accusatory and sneering lyrics - the main foundation for punk rock and what it is today. This sound over the classic rock of the 70s created a new style that was unheard of before. Although the media treated them as pariahs, British punk rock and its popularity increased making the work of Jamie Reid known.

This work is especially similar to the work at the bottom half of the display, combining photos and portraits of real people with disorientated words made out of cut out letters.

It gives a sense of the punk culture through its lack of thought or care for what others think, it says a message how it is. It is messy, disorientated, and thoughtless like punk rock is vocally. (makes me think of the Sex Pistols song, Anarchy In The UK, from the band which inspired many other punk and alternative rock acts throughout the 20th and 21st centuries).

Reference list + Useful Links Enter Gallery. (n.d.). View Jamie Reid artworks, signed by the artist. [online] Available at: https://entergallery.com/collections/jamie-reid [Accessed 30 Jan. 2022]. Spotify. (n.d.). Sex Pistols. [online] Available at: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1u7kkVrr14iBvrpYnZILJR [Accessed 30 Jan. 2022]. Tate (2009). Jamie Reid born 1947 | Tate. [online] Tate. Available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jamie-reid-12111 [Accessed 30 Jan. 2022]. Wikipedia Contributors (2019). Jamie Reid. [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Reid [Accessed 30 Jan. 2022].