Philip Reeves, RSA, PRSW, RGI, RE, (7 July 1931 - 14 March 2017) was born in Cheltenham, England. He studied at the Cheltenham School of Art from 1947 to 1949, and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1951 to 1954.
Reeves was involved in establishing Edinburgh Printmakers in 1967, having identified the lack of support and premises for graduating artists, and played an equally important role in Glasgow in helping to set up Glasgow Print Studio. Philip joined Glasgow School of Art in 1954 as a lecturer, and was instrumental in raising the profile of printmaking to be part of the ‘fine arts’, establishing the school’s printmaking department and becoming senior lecturer in 1970.
He continued to use the GPS workshop after retiring from GSA in 1991 and made several publications with GPS as well as exhibiting his work in the gallery many times. A key figure in Scottish printmaking, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers and a Royal Scottish Academician, and also a member of the RGI and the RSW.
