JON BUCK RWA
Date of Birth: 8 September, 1951
Place: Bristol, UK
Profession: Sculptor / Lecturer
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Jon Buck is currently an Associate Senior Lecturer at Southampton Institute. He studied at Nottingham and Manchester Art Schools. He went on to be a Fellow in Sculpture at Cheltenham and was the first artist in residence for Thamesdown Borough Council. The figure and the natural world are key influences on his work. He has shown his work in numerous galleries in England and abroad. In 2000 he was commissioned by Goodwood for a sculpture entitled 'Goodwood Goddess'. The same year he accepted a commission for the West Quay Shopping Centre, Southampton. Other key public commissions include 'Returning to Embrace', at Canary Wharf, London and 'New Age', for the British Consulate General building in Hong Kong in 1996.
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Jon Buck was elected a member of the RWA in 1990 and in 1994 was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He has shown regularly at the Gallery Pangolin in Chalford Gloucestershire since 1995, at the Albermarle Gallery in London in 1997 as well as Sculpture 2000 at Milton Keynes amongst other notable venues.
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In commenting upon the influences that have affected his work, Jon Buck says:
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'Two major passions have endured since my childhood. The first is the natural world and the other is sculpture, especially sculpture of the human figure. My work attempts to draw these two subjects together in a meaningful way.
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My sculptures are not naturalistic and search for a simpler language of the emotions rather than the intellect. The figures are intended not simply as representations of men and women but also as symbols. Female images take on the role of the feminine principle, the world we live in; man stands for all of us, for Mankind. For me, an embrace is more than just a physical union, it is a symbolic reunion between Man and Nature.'
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