John Bucklow
I am drawn to uncertainty and to paradox, to thought experiments, to the limits of language, to what I understand of physics and its relationship to certain perceptual anomalies that haunt me. My art operates at these boundaries and at the thresholds they describe. The equivocal and conjectural images that this creates nearly always derive from everyday encounters with ordinary objects and spaces that have somehow found themselves in what I think of as the subjunctive sublime, a conditional state where the momentous and the revelatory are yet to happen but have not.With their frissons of random encounter, latent fragility and the paradoxical awareness that to reveal also threatens to diminish, they exist on the edge of a place where the momentous and the revelatory are suspended forever, and always yet to happen.
I studied Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art in London and have worked in product design, marketing, international trade, and publishing. I now focus on building my art practice. I am author of Navigator (photography) published in UK by Greenwich Exchange and have exhibited my photography and multimedia art in UK, Europe and New Zealand. An exhibitor at the founding exhibition of the [British] Computer Art Society my work since has included performance, dance, video, motion graphics, photography, installation, sculpture, and writing. My work is represented in private collections and at the V&A in London.
Links to published work & exhibitions
The Orphanage
http://previews.onlineprogallery.com.au/gallery?cpid=1680162&auth=50f33e404ec530.37109193
Of Wall And Window
https://previews.onlineprogallery.com.au/gallery?cpid=2505153&auth=56dcca8a04f655.97241941
Virtual Residency
www.virtual-residency.net/exhibitions/unesco/participant/bucklow/pics.htm
EXHIBITIONS • PERFORMANCE • PAST PROJECTS
The Memory Of Things To Come Pataka Art+ Museum Porirua 2019
Invitation video performance: Matariki Waiōheke Marae 2013
Shortlist Royal Society of NZ Science Writing Prize 2012
Video installation: YsDy. HuiHui Gallery Napier. 2011
Video installation: N2K. HuiHui Gallery Napier. 2011
Video installation: Fruitful Bathos Of Experience. HuiHui Gallery Napier. 2011
Video installation: GV Gallery London Art Fair 2011
Citations, Photographs. EVA 09 conference London, 2009
Parallel: multimedia installation Virtual Residency Germany 2007
Five: V&A Prints & Drawings Dept 2000
Navigator: exhibition, photographs, New Zealand House, London (‘98),
Navigator: book launch New Zealand House, London (‘98),
Cover Art: ‘Survive!’ magazine (’97 –’99)
Group exhibition London College of Printing; photographs (‘97),
Fair Skies: solo exhibition, photographs, London (’85)
Event One: performance Royal College of Art London (69),
Birkbeck University of London (Event One) article, citation by Gustav Metzger.
Screen prints: Ogilvy & Mather Advertising London (’69),
Autumn: installation, South London Art Gallery (’69),
installation / performance: PIP Cheyne Walk (’68)
Cube: installation, various locations London (‘68/9),
Ice: installation, various locations London (‘68/9)
Gentlemen Of The Quiet Pavement; performance work,
Queen Elizabeth Hall London (’69)
Darkness by Day: performance work Royal Institute Gallery London (‘68),
Brick: performance work, Eye & Ear concert, Liverpool, (68)
True North: performance, Blue Coats Arts Forum Liverpool (‘67/8)
Paintings: Gibbs Gallery Manchester (’65 )