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David Rickard
 
b.1975, Ashburton, New Zealand.
Lives and works in London, UK.
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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.
 
Recent and upcoming projects include In the Air, Wellcome Collection, London (UK), Alpensinfonie, Hans Erni Museum, Lucerne (Switzerland), curated by Heinz Stahlhut, Landfall, Copperfield, London (UK), and Inaspettatamente (Unexpectedly), Cloud Seven, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels (Belgium).


For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.

For his most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.

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David Rickard, A walk in the Alps (Axis Mundi), sculpture, action and film, 2019
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David Rickard, We Move in Circles, 2022, Aluminium from bicycle frame, wheels and components cast into its own wheel tracks, 210 x 210 x 4 cm
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David Rickard, Installation view of solo show ‘Landfall’ at Copperfield, London, 2022
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David Rickard, 2060, 2018, Broken mirrors, aluminium frames and contract, 21 x 30cm each
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David Rickard, Distant Rhythm, 2019, Hand carved drumsticks from the wood of antipodal trees: Mangrove from Kopu (New Zealand) and Olive tree from, Algaidas (Spain), Dimensions variable
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David Rickard, International Airspace, 2019-2020, Postal boxes, Pyrex glass, air, Dimensions variable, Installation at Wellcome Collection 2022
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David Rickard, Astral Itch, 2022, Head scratcher and meteorites, 25 x 11 x 12 cm
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David Rickard, As the world turns, 2017, Foucault pendulum, handwoven woven rug, meditation cushions and audio
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David Rickard, A roomful of air, 2019, lead

Solo Exhibitions
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 Art, 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
2023
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
2022
Institute of Immunology, UCL London
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
 
 

Grants and Residencies
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)
 


Press
2022
‘The Politics of the Air We Breathe’; Hyperallergic, by Anna Souter
‘I’m very conscious of art-washing but we have to bloody do something’: the show tackling air pollution. The Guardian, UK by Patrick Barkham
Pollution and Politics Permeate; Evening Standard, Ben Luke     
 
2021
Seisma Magazine - David Rickard: Art at the Thresholds, by Paul Carey Kent
OpenLab - Breaking Boundaries: A studio visit with David Rickard, by Kate Neave
Breaking Boundaries: A studio visit with David Rickard, OpenLab FM, by Kate Neave
El arte supera la distancia pandemica; El Comercio, Ecuador, by Fernando Criollo
 
2020
Collaborative City - interview with Robert Such  
VolksKrant, Netherlands, Overal en nergens, by Sarah Van Binsbergen
Avrotros TV, LUHCT in Museum Kranenburgh, presented by Suzanne Swarts
Art New Zealand, ‘Echoes from the Sound Barrier’ by Jasmine Gallagher 
 
2019
Radio New Zealand - Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman
ExibArt - Avanti & Indietro with Raffaele Gavarro
ArtBeat, ‘David Rickard – Exploring the gaps between perception and reality’ by Warren Feeney
BBC Designed, ‘Is this what future homes will look like?’ by Eddie Mullan
New York Times, ‘It’s the Art Form of the Moment . . .’ by Scott Reyburn
Elephant Magazine 40, David Rickard ‘Small acts of Carefulness’ Interview with Emily Steer
T24, Turkey ‘Brüksel, İstanbul ve Londra’da canlı performans furyası’ by Selin Tamtekin
La Libre, Brussels ‘La performance en objet de collection’ by C. Lorent
Texture Magazine, ₡ U R R € ₦ ₡ ¥, Juli Cordray   
NEO2, ‘Arte público no tan público en The Ryder’, by A. Le Genissel
 
2018
The Whitewalls ‘The museum and gallery shows you’ve got to see in Basel’ Katy Donoghue
 
2017
Thisistomorrow, ‘AND A 123’ Castlefield Gallery, by Eli Regan
Stilstaan bij stilstaan, ‘Het Zalig Nietsdoen’, Musuem Kranenburgh by Mark Minnema      
Fruit of the Forest, interview with Federica Tattoli
Exhibart, ‘We are all Astronauts’, by Francesca Pasini
Artribune, Con l'occhio dell'astronauta, by Ginevra Bria
 
2016
Art Dependence, ‘When forests are open for ideas’, by Aina Pomar
Luxembourger Wort, ‘Die 1-Prozent-Kunst’, by Thierry Hick
Rheinpfalz, 'Kunst aus der Giesserei’, by Julia Helwig

2015
AJ, ‘Rickard and Di Chello win £50k Snape Maltings contest’, by Merlin Fulcher
il manifesto, ‘La storia non è istantanea’ by Stefano Velotti

2014
Blouin Art Info, ‘Highlights from UNTITLED Art Fair Miami 2014’ by Regina Mogilevskava
Artlyst, ‘Obsessive Compulsive Order’, Paul Carter Robinson

2013
ArtonAir.org  ‘Venice 2013’, Hosted by Fedra Boscaro , Federica Patti
Tremors Magazine, Interview with David Rickard, by Digby Warde Aldam
World Sculpture News, Winter 2013, Testing Phenomena 

2012
AP/100 Von Hundert, ‘Klebebandkreuze und Dielenspaltstoppel’ by Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Kunstbeeld, pages 56-63, David Rickard, Solo Focus, by Manon Braat
Artribune, Umani Sistemi by Tommaso Zanini  
Il Gazzettino, Arte e grandi circuiti di comunicazione by Enzo Di Martino

2011
Art Slant, David Rickard - London Watchlist 
Art Slant, ‘Time + Trace’ by Laura Bushell 
The Times, Eureka Magazine, ‘Artists revel in the questions and leave answers to the scientists’ by Gia Milinovich
Frame Magazine, ‘Time + Trace’ by Lydia Parafianowicz 
Fad Magazine, David Rickard Time + Trace by Mark Westwall

2010
La Arena, Italy, David Rickard: Exhaust, una performance lunga un girono a Castelfranco 
La Reppublica, Italy, ‘Quel NeoZealandese e una mass di palloni gonfiati’ 
Saatchi Online, London Highlights, Paul Carey-Kent
Flash Art, (N.282), Latitudini/Longitundini, Eugenia Delfini        
Saatchi Online, London Highlights, Paul Carey-Kent

2009
The Londonist, ‘Test Flights at the Economist Plaza’ Rachel Borchard 
Correra della Sera, Rome Art Fair 2009 
 
2008
Juliet Art Magazine, Solid State, Martin Cavallarin

2005
The Independent, ‘Sculptures with big ideas get chance to fulfil their dream’ Louise Jury 
The Times T2, ‘It’s all about context for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize’ John Russell Taylor