Reverie in Red

Reverie in Red Book

30cm x 30cm
76 pages

This book presents Reverie in Red, the first solo body of work by Glasgow-based painter and visual artist Dave ‘PizzaBoy’ Breen, bringing together oil paintings, installations, and photography created between 2025 and 2026 and shown in the April 2026 exhibition in Glasgow.

The work explores Breen’s fascination with nostalgia as a feeling rather than a memory. A longing for a moment that feels familiar but may never have been lived. Drawing from cinema, literature, music, and popular culture, the work reflects on how these influences linger both in the collective imagination and in our personal histories.

These references are not quoted or recreated. Instead, they surface as atmosphere, appearing as fragments, tones, and visual cues - echoes of memories misremembered. The work is rooted in inherited experience. The stories we absorb through screens, pages, and soundtracks, until they blur with our own, settling in the body as something felt rather than recalled.

Reverie in Red exists in the spaces in between. Welcoming the warmth of familiarity, while embracing its rough, ragged edges.
Inviting the reader into moments that feel close and recognisable, without confirming whether they ever truly happened at all.