School of Art and DesignHonorary Degree of Doctor of Arts David Reekie was born in Hackney, London in May 1947. He studied Glass and Ceramics at Stourbridge College of Art 1967-70 and in 1972 studied Art, Design and Technology at Birmingham College of Art Education.
He was awarded a Fellowship in Glass by Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts in 1975 and was a founder member of British Artists in Glass in 1976. From 1976 he lectured at North Staffordshire Polytechnic, moving 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 the USA.
From 1994-97 he was appointed an International Council Member to Pilchuck Glass School. He was shortlisted for the 1998 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 and two years later was invited to attend a reception given at Buckingham Palace to celebrate British Design.
David’s work was shortlisted for the 2006 Coburg Glass Prize in Germany. He was invited to speak at the Contemporary Glass Society Conference at the Eden Project, Looking into Glass and, in 2008, he was a speaker at the Creative Pathways Symposium at the University of Wolverhampton.
David has lectured throughout the world including; Pilchuck Glass School, USA; Sars Poteries, France; Ezra Glass Studios, Kanaz, Japan; and Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada. In 2009 David had a Residency at South Australia School of Art in Adelaide and also lectured at the University of South Australia.
Earlier this year he taught at the Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin and will be teaching at the Wanganui Glass Festival, in New Zealand later in the year.
