In 1975, he was hired as an education officer for the Art Gallery of Western Australia and worked full-time until 1988 when he went part-time to become an adjunct lecturer for the Department of TAFE (now Central Institute of Technology).
[4] In 1990, Reed completed a Diploma in Printmaking, and one year later resigned from the Art Gallery of Western Australia to begin full-time lecturing at TAFE.
[1] According to Nevill Drury, Reed’s “early training in design has led to formalistic qualities in his imagery and he acknowledges this as an important factor in his work.
The images he produces are usually created for specific exhibitions and derived from his own experiences - relating mostly to places he has visited, personal relationships or objects in his immediate surroundings”.
His work can be found in several Perth collections, including the Family Courts, Alexander Library, Newman College and Princess Margaret Hospital.
[10] He has also been included in group exhibitions in Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Spain, Poland and the United States.
He is represented in the Bureau of Art Exhibitions, Lodz, Poland; the Exlibriscentrum, Sint Niklass, Belgium; and private collections in Canada, England, Germany, Netherlands, Russia and United States.