About

1947 Born: Hackney, London 1967-70 Stourbridge College of Art

1972-73 Birmingham College of Art Education

1975-80 Fellow in Glass, Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts

1975-83 Workshop in Lincoln

1976 Founder Member of British Artists in Glass

1976-86 Lecturer in Glass at North Staffordshire Polytechnic

1983-86 Workshop Butt Lane, Stoke on Trent

1985 Lecture/Workshop: B.A.G. Conference, Stourbridge

1986 Workshop moved to Norwich 1986 British Artists in Glass Committee Member

1987 British Artists in Glass (BAG ) Vice Chairman

1988-91 External Examiner in Glass, Middlesex Polytechnic

1988 Winston Churchill Fellow, Alternative Architectural Glass in U.S.A.

1989 Organised: Form, Construction and Glass Exhibition, Norwich

1990 Lecture/Workshop: B.A.G. Conference, Stoke on Trent

1990-91 Visiting Lecturer at Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, U.S.A.

1992 Visiting Lecturer at Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada

1993 Lecture/Workshop: Ausglass Conference, Canberra, Australia Workshop: Glass Dept. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Lecture: Meat Market Crafts Centre, Melbourne, Australia Lecture: Sidney College of the Arts, Australia

1993 Lecture: Crafts Council, London

1993 Visiting Lecturer at Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, U.S.A. Workshop: New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, U.S.A.

1994 International Council Member, Pilchuck Glass School

1994 Master Class at the Royal College of Art, London

1995 Lecture: S.O.F.A. Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, U.S.A.

1996 Lecture at 'Glittering Careers', Glassmakers Seminar, Bath University.

1994-2000 Workshops at National College of Art & Design, Dublin.

1998 Work selected for display at G8 Conference in Birmingham

1998 Workshop at Instituut Voor Kuntssambachten, Belgium

1998 Shortlisted for Jerwood Prize for Glass, Crafts Council, London

1998 Lecture at Jerwood Glass Prize Seminar 1998 Lecture at North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland

1999 Workshop at Wanganui Polytechnic, New Zealand

1999 Workshop at Sars Poteries, France

2000 Workshop at Ezra Glass Studios, Kanaz, Japan Lecture at Utatsuyama Craft Workshops, Kanazawa, Japan Lecture at Tokyo Glass Institute, Japan

2001 Workshop at Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada

2001 Workshop Jacksonville University, Florida USA

2001 Appointed to the Advisory Council for Northlands Creative Glass Centre

2002 Appointed External Examiner at Edinburgh College of Art.

2003 Invited to teach a workshop at UCOL Wanganui, New Zealand.

2003 Invited to lecture at SOFA Chicago, USA.

2003 Invited to teach a workshop at Sars Poteries, France.

2004 Collect 2004, Crafts Council, V&A Museum, London

2006 Workshop, Unravelling The Mysteries of Glass Casting, Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui Japan

2007 Invited to teach a workshop at Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, USA - Speaker at Contemporary Glass Society conference, Looking into Glass, Eden Project, Cornwal

2008 Speaker Creative Pathways Symposium, University of Wolverhampton

2009 Residency, South Australia School of Art, University of SA, Adelaidel

2010 Casting Worksop & Lecture, Edinburgh College of Art

Abstracting the Human Figure Workshop & Lecture, North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland

2011 Casting Workshop & Lecture, Fire Station Sculpture Studios,Dublin, Ireland.Lecture, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland.

Casting Workshop, Wanganui Glass Festival, New Zealand.Invited to lecture at the Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui, N.Z. and North Tec, Wangerei, N.Z.

2011 Awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts from University of Wolverhampton

2013, David was invited back to Hong Kong to teach a glass casting workshop at the Baptist

University and to take part in a joint exhibition, Confluence, with glass artist Sunny Wang, at the

Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre.

2014 he was invited to teach two workshops at the Blue Dog Studios in Melbourne and at the

Art Glass Studios in Perth, Australia.

2015, he was invite as one of five judges for the British Glass Biennale in Stourbridge. UK.
2018, David was invited to judge the National Innovation Glass exhibition at the International Lampwork Glass Art Festival in Hejian City, China.

In 2019 David’s work was featured in both the British and Irish Glass Biennale’s, and in 2020 he was invited to teach and lecture at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin

2020 Invited to teach and lecture at the National College of Art &

Design in Dublin.

2021 Invited to give lecture to the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London

2023 Invited to speak at the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, part of the Contemporary Glass Society’s Expanding Horizons series.

Recent Exhibitions

2012

Collect, Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London

Global+Local, Studio and Contemporary Glass on Florida’s West Coast, Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida, USA

Glass Games, A Desire, A Dream, A Vision, Contemporary Glass Society at The Gallery on Redchurch Street, London.

Verriales 2012, Mixed Media, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France.

2013

Glass Weekend 13, Wheaton Village, New Jersey, USA.

Verriales 2013, Inside Outside, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France.

SOFA Chicago, Thomas R Riley Galleries, USA.

Confluence, David Reekie & Sunny Wang, Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong.

Pan Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands.

2014

Art Palm Beach, Thomas R Riley Galleries, USA

Body Talk at Ebletoft Glass Museum, Denmark

Coburg Glass Prize, Germany

Craft Now, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK.

Verriales 2014, L’Art et Le Sacre, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France.

SOFA Chicago, Thomas R Riley Galleries, USA

Pan Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands.

2015

Art Palm Beach, Thomas R Riley Galleries USA

British Glass Biennale, invited artist, Stourbridge, UK.

Verriales 2015, Double, Galerie Internationale du Verre, France.

SOFA Chicago, Thomas R Riley Galleries, USA

Essence, London Glassblowing Gallery. London

Contemporary Glass at RAM, Racine Art Museum, USA

David Reekie Casual Bystanders, Etienne Gallery, Netherlands.

2016

Art Palm Beach, Thomas R Riley Galleries USA

Corps a Corps, Musee du Verre, Conches, France

Peace / Peace, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, USA

44th International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, USA

Connections, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2017

Nonsense, The Ruthin Centre for Visual Arts, Wales

The Mixed Show, Marsden Woo Gallery, London

Collect, The Saatchi Galleries, London

Verriales 2017, Duality, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France

Synergy, London Glassblowing Gallery

SOFA Chicago, Habatat Galleries, USA

Pan Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands

2018

Collect, The Saatchi Galleries, London

Narratives in Glass, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA

46th Annual International Invitational Awards Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, USA

Verriales 2018, Universality, Galerie Internationale du Verre, France

Breaking the Mould, London Glassblowing Gallery

Pan Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands

2019

47th Annual International Invitational Awards Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, USA

Verialles 2019, Frontiers, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France

British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge.

Celebrating Glass, 10 Years, at the London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey.

Irish Glass Biennale, Dublin Castle, Eire

SOFA Chicago, Habatat Galleries, USA.

Pan Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands.

2020

Moi(s) MusVerre Sars Poteries, France

48th Annual International Invitational, Habatat Direct, USA

Verialles 2020 Balance, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France

2021

Verriales 2021, Equilibrium, Galerie Internationale du Verre, France.

45th Anniversary Show, London Glassblowing Gallery, London.

PAN Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands.

2022
Collect: London Glass Blowing Gallery, London.

50th Annual International Invitational, Habatat Galleries, USA.

Glorious Glass Show, Crafts Centre & Gallery Leeds.

Verriales 2022, Migration, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France.

Earth/Sea/Sky, CGS/London Glassblowing Gallery, London.

Contemporary Glass Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Past, Present, Future. Stourbridge Glass Museum, UK.

Contemporary Glass, General Office Gallery, Stourbridge, UK

British Glass Biennale 2022. The Glasshouse Arts Centre, Amblecote, Stourbridge, UK.

PAN Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands

2023

Gather, London Glassblowing Gallery.

51st Annual International Invitational, Habatat Galleries, USA

Verriales 2023, Focus, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France

PAN Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands

2024

Gather, London Glassblowing Gallery.

One Man Show, The Abstract Figure in Glass, The Corn Hall Gallery, Diss, Norfolk.

Thinking Through Drawing, Cromer Artspace, Norfolk.

Statement

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 has been invited to lecture and teach throughout the world including;

Pilchuck Glass School, USA

Ausglass Conference in Canberra, Australia

A Master Class at Royal College if Art , London

National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland;

Wanganui Polytechnic in New Zealand,

Sars Poteries, France.

Ezra Glass Studios, Kanaz, Japan.

Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada.

Jacksonville University, Florida, USA.

University of South Australia

Edinbugh College of Art

North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland

The Baptist University, Hong Kong

Fire Station Sculpture Workshops, Dublin, Ireland

He has been an external examiner for glass at:

Middlesex Polytechnic

Edinburgh College of Art

The Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Victoria & Albert Museum, Contemporary Glass Collection, London

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

Manchester City Art Galleries

Musee-Atelier du Verre de Sars Poteries, France

Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery

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

Shanghai Museum of Glass

Ernsting-Stiftungen Glasmuseum, Germany

Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA

Bergstom-Mahler Glass Museum, Wisconsin, USA

Tacoma Art Museum, USA

Musee du Verre, Conches, France

COMMISSIONS

2001- 2001 A Human Oddity ?, a Millennium Commission for Broadfield

House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, West Midlands.

2000 - A Captive Audience ? , for the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

1990 - Glass Heads, Crystal Leisure Centre, Stourbridge, Dudley Arts Council

AWARDS

Awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study Alternative Architectural Glass in U.S.A.1988

Short Listed for Jerwood prize 1998

Short Listed for Coburg Glass Prize 1996

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts, Wolverhampton University 2011

Short Listed for Coburg Glass Prize 2014