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 Throwing Dice in the Dark, GMR2, Michela Rizzo, Venice (Italy), In the Air, Wellcome Collection, London (UK), Seisma ‘Art & Science’, GIANT Gallery, curated by P. Carey-Kent & M. Evans, Bournemouth (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 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.
Recent and upcoming projects include Throwing Dice in the Dark, GMR2, Michela Rizzo, Venice (Italy), In the Air, Wellcome Collection, London (UK), Seisma ‘Art & Science’, GIANT Gallery, curated by P. Carey-Kent & M. Evans, Bournemouth (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 show with the gallery please click here.
David Rickard, A walk in the Alps (Axis Mundi), sculpture, action and film, 2019
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
David Rickard, Installation view of solo show ‘Landfall’ at Copperfield, London, 2022
David Rickard, 2060, 2018, Broken mirrors, aluminium frames and contract, 21 x 30cm each
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
David Rickard, International Airspace, 2019-2020, Postal boxes, Pyrex glass, air, Dimensions variable, Installation at Wellcome Collection 2022
David Rickard, Astral Itch, 2022, Head scratcher and meteorites, 25 x 11 x 12 cm
David Rickard, As the world turns, 2017, Foucault pendulum, handwoven woven rug, meditation cushions and audio
David Rickard, 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 (upcoming) 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 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 2024 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 Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection (Belgium) Casa Museo Belvedere (Italy) Concordia 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) S. Davíðsdóttir (UK) Wellcome Collection (UK) Grants and Residencies 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) Press 2023 ‘Perception and Reality’, Interalia Magazine, interview with Richard Bright ‘Traces of a Cathode’, Art Monthly UK, by Bob Dickinson 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 |