Kathleen Reilly is a Scottish artist and metalworker. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art Silversmithing & Jewellery department in 2015 and completed her Masters in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art in 2018. In 2019 she was awarded the Daiwa Scholarship by the Daiwa-Anglo Japanese Foundation, and in 2022 a Dezeen Award for Homeware design of the year.

She writes poetry, observing and absorbing fleeting moments and unconscious actions within her every day; key texts are chosen and abstracted to form tangible outcomes. Her work encompasses a broad range of technical and industrial processes, including, casting, mould making and die-cutting, focusing on the power of material and composition to shift entrenched understandings. Reilly reinvents the commonplace with elegant and often witty outcomes that carry ambiguous functions.

Collaborating with chefs internationally, she continues to provoke thought on the everyday and our rituals of the table. Creating functional work of a particularly experimental kind, she introduces users to new social experiences when dining. She has worked closely with Amsterdam based Steinbeisser on their experimental gastronomy events.

In addition to her artistic practice, Reilly works as a guest lecturer at various international institutions and on research and design projects for design and consultancy studios in Japan and the UK.