Sculptor with a strong interest in kinetic works, born in South Bend, Indiana, America. His family moved from New England to Scotland, and from 1914 he was educated at Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire. Went to Oxford University and the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, lived in Paris, taught in America, then during engineering work in the Royal Air Force developed a liking for sculpting. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, holds his mesmeric, wind-blown sculpture Three Lines Fixed, Two Moving, of 1970. His 1972 piece Three Squares Gyratory, again wind-driven, is held by Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, and Three Right Angles Horizontal, of 1982, is sited in water at the Highland Sculpture Park. Rickey’s 1967 study Constructivism: Origins and Evolution was revised and reissued in 1995.