John Buckley (sculptor)

John Buckley (sculptor)

John Buckley, born in Leeds 1945, is a famous international sculptor whose most important public sculpture is "Untitled 1986", better known as "The Shark House" or the "Headington Shark" in Headington, Oxford. The Shark was erected on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Made of fibreglass on the farm near Wallingford, Oxfordshire where he was based, it weighs 203 kilograms and is 25 feet long.

John Buckley is a Patron of MAG (Mines Advisory Group), which is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation.

External links

[http://www.johnbuckleysculptor.co.uk John Buckley Website]


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