Black Anarchy is a three colour screen print produced with renowned print studio K2 in London. This print reproduces one of Jamie Reid's very first, rarely seen artworks for the Sex Pistols, a flyer for the forthcoming single Anarchy In The UK. "Out soon!"
The original flyer was produced in an extremely small run at Rye Express in Peckham, where Jamie had been working in 1975-76 after the demise of Croydon-based radical print collective Suburban Press, who produced flyers, posters and publications for themselves and for other protest groups.
Jamie produced a lot of early Pistols materials on the night shift at Rye Express, including various trials using image multiplication and 'ghosting' whereby the colours are deliberately printed slightly off register, making the image appears to move on the page. These trials were destroyed, but a few of these early Anarchy flyers survived, and are very coveted by collectors today.
Jamie was thrilled by this print's quality, and we added subtle traces of florescent pink and green for extra visual energy. Getting the colours exactly right was a long trial for Jamie during the 1970's, particularly on Never Mind The Bollocks, which went through a number of colour trials before hitting exactly the right ink and paper combination. Sadly this edition is the only edition we got to complete, making it the last signed edition by Jamie Reid before his untimely passing in August 2023.
