LONDON.-For the first time iconic artist Jamie Reid is presenting an exciting new body of works on glass at THE AQUARIUM L-13 gallery. Sex Pistols’ ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ album cover artist Jamie Reid has been working with glass for the first time; his unique and intensely coloured glass pieces, the result of a collaboration with Melt Design, will be on show at THE AQUARIUM L-13 gallery in August. The works will be displayed in a specially created environment alongside a series of new paintings of similarly vibrant intensity. Although better known for his agit-prop and design work, Reid has also created over the years a staggering body of work that explores his more esoteric, abstract and spiritual concerns. Highly coloured with an deeply charged beauty, these universal works lend themselves to glass perfectly, unveiling layers upon layers of new magical realms. Jamie Reid’s unique vision articulates and gives form to some of the key issues of our times. He responds to the ever-increasing attacks on our civil liberties and shared common spaces with passionate anger and savage humour, and shows us ways in which we might re-organise our political and spiritual resources. This is the role of the shaman, and Reid's art acts like a lightning rod, returning us to the earth so that we might take part in the healing process. Reid has always avoided being pigeon-holed, and with the growing scourge of “urban art” posturing his paintings and glass works offer a true “alternative” vision. The exhibition will also be complimented by the publication of a new set of retrospective prints featuring classic work from the artist’s own archive of politically charged and radical graphic work.This highly collectable artist, whose artworks have been recently purchased by the Tate, has also collaborated on anew collection of clothes for Comme des Garcons that’s to be launched this summer.

The gallery has worked sympathetically with artists to show their work in a relaxed, friendly environment, aiding them in the production of a huge body of printed and special edition items, many of which have subsequently become extremely collectable.