Rogue Materials by Jamie Reid 1972-2021 - Xerox's, Cut-Ups and Outtakes
Rogue Materials by Jamie Reid 1972-2021 - Xerox's, Cut-Ups and Outtakes
Hardback
176 pages in full colour
30 x 22 cm
exquisitely printed on 120 gsm Munken Lynx Rough paper and bound in paper covered pictorial 3mm book board cut flush to the edges
Aided and abetted by the immediacy of xerox-machines, Jamie Reid has been hooked on the freedom of designing by cut, paste, copy & scrawl since his first encounter with these machines in 1972.
Along with a burgeoning DIY scene Reid recognised the errors, experimentation & play inherent in the medium of photocopying made it ideal not just for drafting artwork but for communicating with visceral speed the radical ideas of the time: using it to disseminate agit-prop for the Black Panthers to anti-war rallying cries.
Here, the scraps of the medium are the message: cutting room floor detritus encompassing 50 years of protest, music, art, radical thinking & speaking out. From Reid’s beginnings at community activist publication Suburban Press, to punk, the Sex Pistols and beyond, shot through with political & spiritual proclamations this book is a collage testament to Reid’s maxim: Keep Warm, Make Trouble.
Introduction by John Marchant
Edited and designed by Steve Lowe and John MarchantPublished by the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop in association with John Marchant Gallery