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David Rickard, A walk in the Alps (Axis Mundi), sculpture, action and film, 2019

David Rickard, A roomful of air, 2019, lead

David Rickard, Weigh, 2019, Anchors and rope

David Rickard, 2060, 2018, Broken mirrors, aluminium frames and contract, 21 x 30cm each

David Rickard, Distant Rhythm, 2019, Hand carved drumsticks and drum Dimensions variable

David Rickard, As the world turns, 2017, Foucault pendulum, handwoven woven rug, meditation cushions and audio

David Rickard is a New Zealand born artist who lives and works in London, UK. Following a degree in architecture he 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.

Solo exhibitions include A circle called Zero, curated by Rubén Díaz, No Lugar, Quito, Ecuador, 2021; Foreign Bodies, Copperfield, London (2020); Beyond Sight Within Grasp, UCL, London (2020); Echoes from the Sound Barrier, Ashburton Art, New Zealand (2019); We are all Astronauts, Otto Zoo, Milan (2017); 0, Copperfield London, London (2016); A Bag of Atoms, Balzer Projects, Basel (2016); Myriad, Site specific installation with CORD, Snape Maltings (2016); Out of Sorts, Copperfield off-site, Rotterdam (2015); What you know is not what you see, Canal 05, Brussels (2014); Vanishing Point, Sumarria Lunn, London (2013); Displacements, Galleria Michela Rizzo,  Venice (2012); Time + Trace, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London (2011); Test Flights, Economist Plaza, London (2010); Mitosis, Michela Rizzo, Treviso (2009).

Selected group shows include 'In the Air' at Wellcome Collection, London, (in)visibile fields / Space as energy, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy, Inaspettatamente (Unexpectedly), Cloud Seven, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels (2021); Not Painting, Copperfield, London (2021); Brief Encounters 21, curated by Chris Driessen & Steven Vandervelden, Lustwarande, NL (2021); Mountain Scenarios, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin (2021); The Feuilleton: I Will Bear Witness, curated by Jo Melvin, Edicola Feuilleton, Spoleto & Macro Museo, Rome &  Edicola, Santa Maria in Trastevere, curated by Vittoria Bonifatti (2021); Reflections, Galleria Michella Rizzo, Venice (2021); PORÖS, Sculplobe e.V, Berlin (2021); Reset. Instructions to begin in a new present, TACA, Palma Mallorca, curated by Aina Pomar (2021); Lucht, Kranenburgh Museum, Bergen, Netherlands (2020); Encounters 20, Lustwarande, Tilburg, Netherlands (2020); Welcome Home! curated by Rebecca Pelly-Fry, Elephant West, London (2019); Soglie e Confini curated by Elena Forin and Michaela Rizzo, Venice (2019); Trellis curated by Sam Wilkinson, UCL East, London (2019); ₡ U R R € ₦ ₡ ¥ curated by Lucie Fontaine, NOME, Berlin (2019); Light-footed light fingered, Ryder Projects, London (2019); Futuruins, Palazzo Fortuny in collaboration with Ermitage Italia, Venice (2018); The End is Where We Start From, Balzer Projects in collaboration with NOME Gallery, Basel (2018); Austrian Illuminations, Austrian Cultral Forum, London (2018); AND A 123, Castlefield Gallery, Machester, UK (2017); Het Zalig Nietsdoen, Kranenburgh Museum, Bergen, Netherlands (2017); REPÈRES - État de l’art public au Luxembourg, LUCA, Luxembourg (2017); Moving Space, KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig, Germany (2017); Not Really Really, The Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium (2016); Your face has no function for me, Division of Labour, London, UK (2016); Open Forest, The Jerwood Space, London (2016); PAE, curated by Delcroix Pinsky, Belval, Luxembourg (2016); Yield, Belval, Luxembourg (2016); Myriad, with CORD, Snape Maltings Sculpture Collection, UK (2016); The Dream of Modern Living?, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, UK (2015); Taking Shape, Pangea Sculptor’s Centre, London, UK (2015); Flags, Serra di Giardini, Venice (2015); Weight for the Showing, Maddox Arts, London (2015); Do you have Barbaric Taste?, Poppositions, Brussels, Belgium (2015); Weight for the Showing, Maddox Arts, London (2015);  Act & Application, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2014); What you know is not what you see, Canal 05, Brussels (2014); Alchemy, State of Change, NEST, The Hague (2014); TRA, Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso (2013); Intersections – Science in Contemporary Art - Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv (2012); LoBo Project Space, Berlin (2012); Round the Clock, 54th Venice Biennale – Venice (2011); Beyond Ourselves – The Royal Society of Science, London (2011).




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

To view the most recent group show with the gallery including work by David Rickard click here