Following a degree in architecture, David Rickard went on to study art at Accademia di Brera in Milan and Central Saint Martins in London. His original studies in architecture have had a lasting impact on his art practice. Through a process-based practice his works investigate the inherent material properties of our surrounding environment and the spatial relationships between people, objects and architecture.
Constantly moving along a fine line between sculpture and performance, art and physics, Rickard’s work engages the viewer as an active player. Once the artist has established a trajectory, a combination of necessity and chance takes place, making the ordinary extraordinary and generating new readings of our surroundings.
Rickard’s work has been exhibited at institutions internationally including: Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (Italy); Wellcome Collection, London (UK); Hans Erni Museum, Lucerne (Switzerland); Ashburton Art Gallery (New Zealand); Royal College of Art, London (UK); GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth (UK); Pangea Sculptors Centre, Coventry (UK); S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK); MoCA Brescia (Italy); MACRO, Rome (Italy); Kranenburgh Museum, Bergen (Netherlands); Lustwarande (Netherlands); KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig (Germany); Cloud Seven Collection, Brussels (Belgium).
Public commissions include: Synthesis (heavy-chain), Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, UCL London (UK, 2023); Absence Echoed, Uren Hub, Imperial College, London (UK, 2022); Signals, Damac Tower, London (UK, 2021); Beyond Sight Within Grasp (Red, Yellow and Blue), UCL Trellis, London (UK, 2019); Timelapse, Kielder Art & Architecture (UK, 2019); Yield, Fonds Belval (Luxembourg, 2016); Myriad, Snape Maltings Sculpture Collection (UK, 2016).
Residencies include: S+T+ARTS (EU); Ars Electronica (Austria); Trellis, UCL, London (UK); Stiftung Kunstdepot (Switzerland); Public Art Experience (Luxembourg); Pangaea Sculptors Centre (UK); LoBe Berlin (Germany).
His work is held in collections internationally including Museo Belvedere (Italy); Concordia Collection (Netherlands); De Nederlandsche Bank Art Collection (Netherlands); Fonds Belval Luxembourg (Luxembourg); Imperial College London (UK); Kielder Art & Architecture Collection (UK): Manchester City Art Gallery (UK); Prudential Collection (UK); University College London (UK); Wellcome Collection (UK).
For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Constantly moving along a fine line between sculpture and performance, art and physics, Rickard’s work engages the viewer as an active player. Once the artist has established a trajectory, a combination of necessity and chance takes place, making the ordinary extraordinary and generating new readings of our surroundings.
Rickard’s work has been exhibited at institutions internationally including: Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (Italy); Wellcome Collection, London (UK); Hans Erni Museum, Lucerne (Switzerland); Ashburton Art Gallery (New Zealand); Royal College of Art, London (UK); GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth (UK); Pangea Sculptors Centre, Coventry (UK); S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK); MoCA Brescia (Italy); MACRO, Rome (Italy); Kranenburgh Museum, Bergen (Netherlands); Lustwarande (Netherlands); KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig (Germany); Cloud Seven Collection, Brussels (Belgium).
Public commissions include: Synthesis (heavy-chain), Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, UCL London (UK, 2023); Absence Echoed, Uren Hub, Imperial College, London (UK, 2022); Signals, Damac Tower, London (UK, 2021); Beyond Sight Within Grasp (Red, Yellow and Blue), UCL Trellis, London (UK, 2019); Timelapse, Kielder Art & Architecture (UK, 2019); Yield, Fonds Belval (Luxembourg, 2016); Myriad, Snape Maltings Sculpture Collection (UK, 2016).
Residencies include: S+T+ARTS (EU); Ars Electronica (Austria); Trellis, UCL, London (UK); Stiftung Kunstdepot (Switzerland); Public Art Experience (Luxembourg); Pangaea Sculptors Centre (UK); LoBe Berlin (Germany).
His work is held in collections internationally including Museo Belvedere (Italy); Concordia Collection (Netherlands); De Nederlandsche Bank Art Collection (Netherlands); Fonds Belval Luxembourg (Luxembourg); Imperial College London (UK); Kielder Art & Architecture Collection (UK): Manchester City Art Gallery (UK); Prudential Collection (UK); University College London (UK); Wellcome Collection (UK).
For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
A walk in the Alps (Axis Mundi). Sculpture, action and film, 2019.
We Move in Circles, 2022. Aluminium from bicycle frame, wheels and components cast into its own wheel tracks, 210 x 210 x 4 cm.
Installation view of solo show ‘Landfall’ at Copperfield, London, 2022.
Synthesis (heavy-chain), 2023. Permanent installation at the Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, UCL London.
Premonitions (They don't know), 2025. Rainwater and ink on linen, 101 x 101 cm.
2060 (2018). Broken mirrors, aluminium frames and contract. 21 x 30cm each
Distant Rhythm, 2019. Hand carved drumsticks from the wood of antipodal trees: Mangrove from Kopu (New Zealand) and Olive tree from, Algaidas (Spain).
International Airspace, 2019-2020. Postal boxes, Pyrex glass, air, Dimensions variable. Installation at Wellcome Collection 2022
Astral Itch, 2022. Head scratcher and meteorites, 25 x 11 x 12 cm.
As the world turns, 2017. Foucault pendulum, handwoven woven rug, meditation cushions and audio.
A roomful of air, 2019. Lead.
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Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2024 David Rickard, Mariateresa Sartori - AETHER / ETERE, GMR, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2023 Throwing Dice in the Dark, GMR2, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2022 Landfall, Copperfield, London, UK 2021 A circle called Zero, curated by Rubén Díaz, No Lugar, Quito, Ecuador 2020 Foreign Bodies, Copperfield, London, UK Beyond Sight Within Grasp, UCL, London, UK 2019 Echoes from the Sound Barrier, Ashburton Arts Center, New Zealand 2017 We are all Astronauts, Otto Zoo, Milan, Italy 2016 0, Copperfield London, London, UK A Bag of Atoms, Balzer Projects, Basel, Switzerland Myriad, Site specific installation with CORD, Snape Maltings 2015 Out of Sorts, Copperfield off-site, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014 What you know is not what you see, Canal 05, Brussels, Belgium 2013 Vanishing Point, Sumarria Lunn, London, UK 2012 Displacements, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2011 Testing the Limits, The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK Time + Trace, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London, UK 2010 Test Flights, Economist Plaza, London, UK 2009 Mitosis, Michela Rizzo, Treviso, Italy 2008 Exhaust, 19-06-08, Goethe-Institut, Exhibition Road, London, UK Solid State, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2007 Dilate, Trolley Gallery, London, UK Group Exhibitions 2025 Boulder, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy (upcoming) Dreams and Data, Copperfield, London, UK (current) AFTERIMAGE, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, UK A Walk in the Park with James Christie, Christie's, Amsterdam 2024 Not What it Seems... (From the John Snijders Collection), Platform A, Middlesbrough FarFarOut, Way Out East, University of East London, curated by Samuel Zealey Hope - Who will turn the tide, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Intension (the concept of ‘dog’ encapsulates its ‘dogness’), Copperfield, London, UK Controlled Encounter / The Constriction of Open Space, Royal College of Art, London, UK Urban Mining, Pangea Sculptors Centre, Coventry, UK 2023 Seisma ‘Art & Science’, GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth, UK curated by P. Carey-Kent & M. Evans Sistema Tempo, MoCA Brescia, Italy Open Air!, Climate Art, London Traces of a Cathode, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK, curated by Joe Cutts 2022 (in)visible fields – space as energy, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy In the Air, Wellcome Collection, London, UK Alpensinfonie, Hans Erni Museum, Lucerne, Switzerland, curated by Heinz Stahlhut 2021 Inaspettatamente (Unexpectedly), Cloud Seven, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium Not Painting, Copperfield, London, UK Brief Encounters 21, curated by Chris Driessen & Steven Vandervelden, Lustwarande, The Netherlands Mountain Scenarios, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin, Italy The Feuilleton: I Will Bear Witness, curated by Jo Melvin, Edicola Feuilleton, Spoleto & Assembramenti, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy Macro Museo, Rome & Edicola, Santa Maria in Trastevere, curated by Vittoria Bonifatti Reflections, Galleria Michella Rizzo, Venice, Italy PORÖS, Sculplobe e.V, Berlin, Germany RESET: Instructions to begin in a new present, TACA, Palma Mallorca, curated by Aina Pomar 2020 LUCHT, Kranenburgh Museum, Bergen, The Netherlands Encounters 20, Lustwarande, Tilburg, The Netherlands Hazard Profile, Copperfield, London UK RE-INDEX, La Rete Projects Michela Rizzo, curated by Elena Forin Here Be Dragons, Copperfield, London UK, curated by Aina Pomar Assembramenti, Michela Rizzo, Venice 2019 Welcome Home! curated by Rebecca Pelly-Fry, Elephant West, London, UK Soglie e Confini, curated by Elena Forin and Michaela Rizzo, Venice, Italy Trellis, curated by Sam Wilkinson, UCL East, London, UK ₡ U R R € ₦ ₡ ¥ curated by Lucie Fontaine, NOME, Berlin, Germany Light-footed light fingered, Ryder Projects, London, UK 2018 Futuruins, Palazzo Fortuny in collaboration with Ermitage Italia, Venice, Italy The End is Where We Start From, Balzer Projects in collaboration with NOME Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Austrian Illuminations, Austrian Cultral Forum, London, UK 2017 AND A 123, Castlefield Gallery, Machester, UK Het Zalig Nietsdoen, Kranenburgh Museum, Bergen, The Netherlands REPÈRES - État de l’art public au Luxembourg, LUCA, Luxembourg Moving Space, KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig, Germany Illuminations 1 (performance), Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK, curated by S. J. Fowler 2016 Not Really Really, The Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium Your face has no function for me, Division of Labour, London, UK Open Forest, The Jerwood Space, London PAE, curated by Delcroix Pinsky, Belval, Luxembourg Yield, Belval, Luxembourg Myriad, with CORD, Snape Maltings Sculpture Collection, UK 2015 The Dream of Modern Living?, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, UK Taking Shape, Pangea Sculptor’s Centre, London, UK Flags, Serra di Giardini, Venice, Italy Which one of these is the non-smoking lifeboat? Pangea Sculptor’s Centre, London, UK Do you have Barbaric Taste?, Poppositions, Brussels, Belgium Weight for the Showing, Maddox Arts, London, UK 2014 Act & Application, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE Here Today . . . The Old Sorting Office, London, UK curated by Artwise Alchemy, state of change, NEST, The Hague, Netherlands, curated by Will Lunn Obsessive Compulsive Order, Copperfield, London, UK Joachim Coucke / David Rickard, What you know is not what you see Canal 05, Brussels, Belgium What you know is not what you see, Canal 05, Brussels, Belgium 2013 David Rickard / David Tremlet, TRA, Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso, Italy Must-Have, Ligne Roset with Articurate, London, UK BLUMM Art Prize, Brussels, Belgium 2012 Zu Haus, LoBe Project Space, Berlin, Germany CALL, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain Intersections, Science in Contemporary Art - Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel The Dividing Line, The High House, Oxfordshire, UK Out of Control, NEST, The Hague, Netherlands David Rickard / Tommy Stockel, LoBe Project Space, Berlin, Germany LoBo Project Space, Berlin, Germany 2011 The British Ceramics Biennial, Spode, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Round the Clock, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Beyond Ourselves, The Royal Society of Science, London, UK The Wolfson Syndrome, Modern Language Experiment, London, UK 2010 HomeBase V, Berlin, Germany Exteriority, Sumarria Lunn, London UK Lines of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales Tony Cragg, Lawrence Carroll, Giovanni Rizzoli, Luca Clabot, David Rickard, Galleria Michela Rizzo Contemporary Art, Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice, Italy Transitions, Castelfranco, Italy - public works curated by Elena Forin Appetite for Destruction, NEST, The Hague, Netherlands Latitudini | Longitudini, Galleria Michela Rizzo Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy Romeu Goncalves / David Rickard, The Mews Project Space, London, UK 2009 Jamais Vu, Forman & Field, Stour Road, London, Hackney Wicked Art Festival 2008 Bombay Sapphire 2008, Superstudio Piu, via Tortona 27, Milan, Italy Show Room, Galleria Michela Rizzo Contemporary Art, Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice, Italy 2005 Long Live Romance II, Galleria Pack, Foro Buonaparte 60, Milan, Italy Long Live Romance II, Lipanjepuntin, Via di Montoro 10, Rome, Italy The Jerwood Sculpture Prize, The Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, UK Public commissions 2023 Synthesis (heavy-chain), Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, UCL London 2022 Absence Echoed, Uren Hub, Imperial College, London 2021 Signals, Damac Tower, London, UK 2019 Beyond Sight Within Grasp (Red, Yellow and Blue), UCL Trellis, London, UK Timelapse, Kielder Art & Architecture, UK 2016 Yield, Fonds Belval, Luxembourg Myriad, Snape Maltings Sculpture Collection, UK Collections Cloud Seven Collection, Belgium Casa Museo Belvedere, Italy Concordia Collection, Netherlands De Nederlandsche Bank Art Collection, Netherlands Fonds Belval Luxembourg, Luxembourg Imperial College London, UK Collection of the National Bank of the Netherlands Kielder Art & Architecture Collection, UK Manchester City Art Gallery, UK Prudential Collection, UK University College London, UK S. Davíðsdóttir, UK Wellcome Collection, UK Grants and Residencies 2025 S+T+ARTS, European Union Ars Electronica, Austria Kunstdepot Göeschenen, Switzerland 2023 Horizon 2020, EU (grant) 2022 Seisma Magazine, Astrophysics (grant) 2020 Arts Council England (grant) 2019 Trellis, UCL, London (residency) Stiftung Kunstdepot, Switzerland (residency) 2016 Public Art Experience, Luxembourg (residency) 2015 Pangaea Sculptors Centre, UK (residency) 2012 LoBe Berlin (residency) 2009 The European Ceramic Work Centre (residency) Arts Council England (grant) Selected Press Interalia Magazine: Perception and Reality, interview with Richard Bright (2023): https://www.interaliamag.org/interviews/david-rickard/ Art Monthly UK: ‘Traces of a Cathode’ by Bob Dickinson (May 2023) Hyperallergic: ‘The Politics of the Air We Breathe' by Anna Souter (October 2022) The Guardian: I’m very conscious of art-washing but we have to bloody do something’: the show tackling air pollution, by Patrick Barkham (June 2022) Evening Standard: Pollution and Politics Permeate, by Ben Luke (May 2022) Seisma Magazine: David Rickard: Art at the Thresholds, by Paul Carey Kent (2021): https://seismamag.com/visual-fine-art/david-rickard OpenLab: Breaking Boundaries: A studio visit with David Rickard, by Kate Neave (2021): https://openlab.fm/news/breaking-boundaries-a-studio-visit-with-david-rickard Collaborative City: Interview with Robert Such (2020): https://www.collaborativecity.com/artist-david-rickard-talks-about-employing-collaboration-as-a-tool-in-making-art/ Art New Zealand: ‘Echoes from the Sound Barrier’ by Jasmine Gallagher (April 2020) New York Times: ‘It’s the Art Form of the Moment . . .’ by Scott Reyburn (September 2019) Elephant Magazine: David Rickard ‘Small acts of Carefulness’, Interview with Emily Steer, Vol. 40(September 2019) ArtBeat: ‘David Rickard – Exploring the gaps between perception and reality’ by Warren Feeney (December 2019) Radio New Zealand: Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman (2019): https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018723873/david-rickard ExibArt: Avanti & Indietro with Raffaele Gavarro (2019): https://www.exibart.com/libri-ed-editoria/avanti-indietro-2/ |