EIGHT-FOLD
YEAR
an exhibition of 365 paintings by
JAMIE REID
with photographs
by
MARIA HUGHES
and JAMIE REID
4TH JUNE
- 2ND JULY 2005
NO GLORY GALLERY - THE AQUARIUM
also
Fuck Forever Duvets & Pillowcases
Exhibition of Printed Work at The Eyestorm Gallery,W1
God Save the Queen - Original Collage
Eight-Fold
Year at the No Glory Gallery, The Aquarium.
Created on a series of journeys and walks around Britain with his wife
Maria, these little paintings (one for each day of the year) also represent
a personal journey in a shamanic sense. Like the work of William Blake,
they explore the world through dismemberment and reassembly with themes
that have occupied the human state for literally thousands of years;
life looked at from the cellular or organic level, to the universal
and spiritual heights. They draw on the beauty and magic of the natural
world in a very direct way, using abstract forms and ancient symbols
that all speak of more connected modes of existence and awareness normally
associated with wiser cultures than our own.
For those
only familiar with Reid’s work with the Sex Pistols or his other
politically charged graphic work, this more esoteric side of his creative
practice comes as a bit of a surprise. But it is in fact all part of
the same practice of challenging preconceived notions and prescribing
alternative ways of seeing or questioning what is around us. This series
of paintings with their supporting photographs are intimate, intensely
beautiful, and present a calm reflective antidote to the big and brash
culture that we’re faced with on a daily basis.
Ltd Edition
Book, Prints, Bedding, Original Sex Pistols Collage.
The Aquarium will be making the first volume of a Ltd Edition four volume
set year book to accompany the Eight-Fold Year exhibition, with the
other three volumes to be made at intervals throughout the year. Also
on sale will be The Aquarium’s extensive back catalogue of prints
by Jamie Reid which will also include a new range of screen printed
duvets & pillow cases featuring the infamous “Fuck Forever”
design. The printed work will also be on exhibition at the Eyestorm
Gallery on Maddox Street W1 from 13th June along with the original collage
for God Save the Queen which, for the first time ever, is being offered
for sale.
THE AQUARIUM,
10 WOBURN WALK, LONDON WC1H 0JL