David Reekie: The Abstract Figure in Glass. - a-n The Artists Information Company

Venue: Diss Corn Hall
Starts: Saturday, March 23, 2024
Ends: Saturday, April 27, 2024
Address: 10 St Nicholas Street Diss, IP22 4LB
Location: East England
Organiser: Diss Corn Hall

David Reekie is showing his work and expressive drawings in East Anglia.

International artist David Reekie, one of the UK’s leading glass sculptors, who has been working with glass for over 50 years, is holding a one man show at the Corn Hall, Diss, Norfolk.

“Drawings are key to all my work; they are the beginning where I have time to think and pull together emotions and frustrations of the complex world in which we live. My drawings are very rarely seen, and this show is a great opportunity to bring together my 2D expressions with 3D finished sculptures”.

Although David’s work is seen across the world, it is very rare to see a body of work such as this in the UK.

David is also an educator, receiving a doctorate in the arts from Wolverhampton University in 2011. He taught at Staffordshire University and the Royal College of Art and has worked and lectured internationally.

David Reekie

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 carried out a Residency at South Australia School of Art, in Adelaide and also lectured at the University of SA. In 2011 he gave a casting workshop & lecture, Fire Station Sculpture Studios, Dublin, Ireland and lectured at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland. He was also invited to lecture at the Hong Kong Baptist University, Faculty of Arts and gave a casting workshop at the Wanganui Glass Festival, New Zealand and lecture at the Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand. In 2011 he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts from the University of Wolverhampton. In 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. In 2014 he was invited to teach two workshops at the Blue Dog Studios in Melbourne and at the Art Glass Studios in Perth, Australia. In 2015, he was invite as one of five judges for the British Glass Biennale in Stourbridge. UK