God save the Queen!

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 Jamie Reid, British artist born in 1947. Mostly known by designing the most iconic and famous punk image of all time, the cover for the Sex Pistols album "God Safe the Queen". Created in the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

Jamie Reid "God Safe the Queen" 1977

The black and white photo of the Queen is disappearing on the top of colourful Union Jack flag which shows importance of the monarchy to the punk ideology. Another message saying that the monarchy should be abolished is  ripping away Queen's eyes and lips, showing underneath the Sex Pistols name band with the title of the single "God safe the Queen"   Reid lived during the Punk and Anarchy movement within the UK and his work is inspired and soaked with punk attitude, protests and rebellion. 

I am writing this post during the Platinum Queen's Jubilee week, 45 years later! In the TV Adam Lambert and Queen sang "We are the champions" front of the Buckingham Palace, when I am wondering (armed with Procreate and my drawings) how to destroy Queen photo inspired by Jamie Reid. Moreover my "Punk's not Dead" topic fits perfectly to the situation which is even more excited and naughty!

That is what I created. 

I started with a round sticker realised for the Platinum Jubilee and I simply drawn the symbol of anarchy on it. I used the spray-paint brush in Procreate as I wanted to looks exactly like someone spray paint over the sticker. 

I found a lovely collage of two photos of the Queen Elisabeth and I just added a small details to it.
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For me bottle of Pimm's fits perfectly to the picture, not only because of the Union Jack flag on the bottle , more because I used to bring bottles of Pimm's for my friends whenever I went back to Poland.
 The last picture is my favourite!
Once I found this photo of the Queen with a lovely smile , I knew what to do. 
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The Queen is a Jocker now with her cheeky smile and my "No Future" sticker, laughing at everyone from her balcony at Buckingham Palace. The situation in the country makes her laugh, the unimaginably high rate of interest, prices , the post pandemic country and the cost of four day long Platinum Jubilee celebration which we will pay off in taxes.









Fig 1. Gov.uk (2022) Extra Bank Holiday to mark The Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022" Available from https://www.gov.uk/government/news/extra-bank-holiday-to-mark-the-queens-platinum-jubilee-in-2022 [Accessed on: 06.06.22]

Fig 2. Guinness World Records (2022) the Queen's Platinum Jubilee: 70 years of record breaking" Available from https://medium.com/fgd1-the-archive/jamie-reid-god-save-the-queen-25852ef575d4 [Accessed on: 06.06.22]

Medium (2017) Jamie Reid - God Save the Queen, Available from https://medium.com/fgd1-the-archive/jamie-reid-god-save-the-queen-25852ef575d4 [Accessed on: 04.06.22]

Comments

  1. Sam Dargan6 June 2022 at 04:28

    It's God SAVE the Queen, not God SAFE the Queen!

    Gallery's look good.

    The post on Reid is interesting as are the digital exercises you have included. There are some interesting links there to what you are doing.

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