David Reekie
David Reekie
Artist processes
My work is influenced by man’s reaction and adaptation to the society in which he lives. We live in a world that grows more complex and difficult to comprehend, with its tensions and temptations that pulls us in different directions. These conflicts provide ideas from which I create characters and situations and provide me with a constant source of material for my work. I devise surreal settings showing how we try to cope with the very limited and purely imagined space that we have created for ourselves.
My main medium is glass and over several years I have developed my own lost wax casting technique.
David Reekie was born in Hackney, London in May 1947 and studied Glass and Ceramics at Stourbridge College of Art 1967-70. In 1975-1985 he was awarded a Fellowship in Glass by Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts. In 1976 he was one of the founder members of British Artists in Glass. From 1976-86 he lectured in glass at North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He moved to Norwich in 1986 where he set up his own studio. In 1988 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study Alternative Architectural Glass in U.S.A.
From 1994-97 he was appointed an International Council Member to Pilchuck Glass. In 1998 he was short listed for the Jerwood Prize for Glass and his work was selected for exhibition at the G8 Summit in Birmingham. In 2002 he was appointed a member of the Advisory Council for North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland. In 2004 David was invited to attend a reception given at Buckingham Palace to celebrate British Design.
He was invited to lecture at Collect, V&A Museum, London in 2005. In 2006 his work was
short listed for Coburg Glass Prize, Germany. In 2007 he was invited to speak at CGS
Conference ‘Looking into Glass’ and in 2008 he was a speaker at the Creative Pathways Symposium at the University of Wolverhampton UK.
In 2009 David did a Residency at South Australia School of Art, in Adelaide and also lectured at the University of SA .
Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery
Broadfield House Glass Museum
Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln
Pilkington Glass Museum, St Helens
Norwich Castle Museum, Contemporary Glass Collection
Glasmuseum Ebletoft, Denmark
Crafts Council Collection, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, Contemporary Glass Collection, London
Manchester City Art Galleries
Musee-Atelier du Verre de Sars Poteries, France
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Tutsek Foundation, Munich, Germany
Shipley Art Gallery
Glass Art Fund, Strasbourg, France
National Museum of Scotland
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
2005
Collect 2005, Crafts Council, V&A Museum, London
21st Century British Glass, Daniel Katz Gallery, London
Palm Beach Contemporary, USA. Thomas R Riley Galleries
The Art of Craft, Medici Gallery, London
DUAL VISION, The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection,
Museum of Arts & Design, New York
SOFA New York, Thomas R Riley Galleries
Glass Collectors Weekend, Wheaton Village, New Jersey
Verriales 2005. Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France
Talking to Strangers, One man show at Thomas R Riley galleries, Ohio USA
SOFA Chicago, USA, Thomas R Riley Galleries
The Human Condition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2006
Palm Beach 3, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA,
Thomas R Riley Galleries
Coburg Glass Prize for Contemporary Glass in Europe, Kunst Sammlungen der Veste Coburg, Germany.
V&A Museum Showcase, Crafts Council, London
Verriales 2006, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France
2007
Collect, V&A Museum London, Scottish Gallery.
Palm Beach 3, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, Thomas R Riley Galleries
Glass Weekend 07, Wheaton Village, New Jersey, USA
Verriales 2007, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France
SOFA Chicago, USA, Thomas R Riley Galleries
2008
Palm Beach 3, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Collect, V&A Museum, London, Scottish Gallery
Exchange of Information, One Man show, Dan Klein Associates, London
Myths & Legends, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Glass Routes, Bilston, Wolverhampton
SOFA Chicago, USA, Thomas R Riley Galleries
Pan Amsterdam , Etienne Gallery
Goya’s Les Caprices, Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, France
Verriales 2008, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France
British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
pAn Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery
Noir & Blanc, Musee du Verre, Sars Poteries, France
2009
Palm Beach 3, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, Scottish Gallery
38th International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, USA
SOFA Santa Fe, USA
Glass Weekend 08, Wheaton Village, New Jersey, USA
Clearly Drawn, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
Melting Point, Pyramid Gallery, York
SOFA Chicago, Thomas R Riley Galleries
pAn Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery
2010
Art Walk, Hong Kong, Koru Gallery Contemporary Art
