| 1947 | Jamie is born in Croydon, Surrey to John Finlay
Macgregor-Reid and Nora Reid (née Gardener)
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| 1962 | Jamie enrols at the Wimbledon Art College, South London.
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| 1964 | Jamie enrols at the Croydon Art School, Surrey.
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| 1966 | Jamie designs a cover for "Heatwave", a British publication
allied to the Situationist International.
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| 1970 | Jamie, along with Jeremy Brook and Nigel Edwards, found
The Suburban Press, a radical neo-situationist printing press.
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| 1974 | Jamie involved with layout for "Leaving the 20th Century",
by Christopher Gray, the first English anthology of work written by the Situationist
International.
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| 1975 | Jamie moves to the Isle of Lewis. |
| 1976 | Malcolm McLaren contacts Jamie on the Isle of Lewis, and asks
Jamie to work with him on his new music-based project, The Sex Pistols.
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| 1976-1980 | Jamie works full time with Sex Pistols, producing
artwork and publicity materials for a string of singles and LPs.
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| 1980 | Jamie produces artwork and materials for the Sex Pistols'
feature film entitled "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle".
Jamie produces artwork for Malcolm McLaren's new proteges Bow Wow Wow.
Jamie moves to Paris, where he works on an unreleased stage performance of Leaving
the 20th Century entitled 'Chaos in Cancerland'.
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1983 | Jamie moves to Brixton, South London, and holds an exhibition at
the Brixton Art Gallery.
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| 1985 | Jamie completes the poster for the film "Letter to Brezhnev".
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| 1986 | Jamie holds an exhibition at Hamilton¹s Gallery, Mayfair, London.
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| 1986-1990 | Worked out of Assorted Images graphics studio, London
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| 1987 | Faber and Faber publish "Up They Rise: The Incomplete Works of Jamie
Reid", with text from the British music journalist Jon Savage.
Jamie completes cover artwork for Transvision Vamp's single "Revolution Baby".
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| 1989 | Assorted Images publish "Celtic Surveyor: More Incomplete Works of
Jamie Reid". Jamie completes a poster to advertise an exhibition of situationist work at the
Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Jamie begins work at The Strongroom recording studio, East London, producing murals, paintings,
logos and general artwork. This work continues to the present.
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| 1989-1990 | 'Celtic Surveyor' exhibition shown in Kyoto, and Tokyo,
Japan
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| 1990 | Jamie begins work with Rhys Mwyn and Anhrefn, a Welsh-language punk
rock band. This included designing the sleeve for their album formerly titled "Rhowch Eich Teitl
Eich Hun" /"Fill in your own title".Later titled "Dragon's Revenge"
Produced artworks for "In Our Time" album by Cactus Rain. Jamie also directed the videos for the
singles from this album. Produced poster and title graphics for the film 'Blonde Fist'.
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| 1991 | Jamie designs artwork for Half Man Half Biscuit single "No Regrets".
He also directed video of the same single.
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| 1992 | Jamie holds 'Celtic Surveyor' at Britannia Hall (Derry ).
This exhibition showed at the 051 Media Centre in Liverpool, and also ran at Cornerhouse
( Manchester ), and Kunsthaus ( Berlin), similtaneousy Jamie produces cover artwork for
"Shamanarchy in the UK", a compilation album by the London-based collective loosely known
as Evolution, who also produced the 'Encyclopaedia Psychedelica'.
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| 1994 | Jamie donated copies of 'Peace Is Tough' ( John Wayne image )
and 'Corporate Slavery', to the charity War Child.
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| 1995 | Jamie works with Zion Train, producing artwork and participating
in the world¹s first "interactive interview" on CD-ROM.
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| 1996 | Following a visit to The Strongroom, the Afro-Celt Sound System
form, then release their first album "Volume 1: Sound Magic", incorporating sleeve designs by
Jamie. Jamie, along with the Liverpool arts collective Visual Stress, works with the Afro-Celt
Sound System at live gigs. Started his ongoing collaboration with Russian computer laser artist
Alexei Blinov/Raylab
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| 1997-1999 | Jamie exhibits a retrospective entitled 'Peace is Tough' in
New York,Tokyo and various European cities.
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| 1998 | Jamie is featured in the "Destroy" exhibition at the Royal Festival
Hall in London
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| 1999 | The Afro-Celt Sound System release their long-awaited second album
"Afro Celt Sound System Volume 2", incorporating further sleeve designs by Jamie.
Jamie exhibits some of his work at The Workhaus, as part of the Liverpool Biennial of
Contemporary Art. Married his muse Maria
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| 2000 | Jamie decorates the Magic Room at the rock'n' roll
Hotel Pelirocco, Brighton, East Sussex.
Jamie begins work on a DVD project.
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| 2001 | 'Peace Is Tough' exhibition shown at the Arches, Glasgow
Produced 'Maridala' image for Legalise Cannabis Campaign
Produced cover artworks for Afro Celt Sound System's third album 'Further In Time'
Throughout the entire period Jamie continued/s to produce drawings, paintings, photos,
and hangings used in shamanistic rituals, festivals and club events. He also found
time to produce cover artworks for a string of other artists including Boy George,
and the Almighty, to name but two.
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