Kathleen Reilly

Kathleen Reilly is a Scottish artist and metalworker who graduated from the Silversmithing & Jewellery department of The Glasgow School of Art in 2015 and completed a master’s in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art in 2018. She moved to Japan in 2019 on a Daiwa Scholarship and now works from Tokyo with artisans and manufacturers there.

Her starting point is writing: by observing fleeting moments and unconscious actions in everyday life she abstracts texts into tangible objects, playing with the semiotic qualities of things whose function stays deliberately ambiguous. Her processes range from casting and mould making to die-cutting, and her tableware work has been developed with chefs internationally and with Amsterdam-based Steinbeisser.