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John Buckley (born 1945 in Leeds, England) is an English sculptor whose best known work is the sculpture "Untitled 1986", better known as "the Shark House" or "The Headington Shark" in Headington, a suburb of Oxford. Buckley went to sculpture classes in the evenings when studying for his O-levels in a technical college. He went on to Winchester School of Art and Leicester College of Art, and thereafter worked as a lorry driver and labourer while getting his career as sculptor off the ground.

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  • جون باكلي (ar)
  • John Buckley (sculptor) (en)
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  • جون باكلي (بالإنجليزية: John Buckley)‏ هو نحات بريطاني، ولد في 1945 في ليدز في المملكة المتحدة. (ar)
  • John Buckley, né à Leeds en 1945, est un sculpteur britannique. Sa plus importante sculpture est une œuvre publique sans nom réalisée en 1986, plus connue sous le nom de "The Shark House" (la maison au requin) ou "The Headington Shark" (le Requin de Headington). Cette sculpture a été construite à Headington, dans la banlieue d'Oxford, à l'occasion du 41e anniversaire du lancement de la bombe atomique sur Nagasaki. Fabriquée en fibre de verre dans une ferme proche de Wallingford, cette sculpture pèse 203 kg et mesure 7,6 mètres de haut. (fr)
  • John Buckley (born 1945 in Leeds, England) is an English sculptor whose best known work is the sculpture "Untitled 1986", better known as "the Shark House" or "The Headington Shark" in Headington, a suburb of Oxford. Buckley went to sculpture classes in the evenings when studying for his O-levels in a technical college. He went on to Winchester School of Art and Leicester College of Art, and thereafter worked as a lorry driver and labourer while getting his career as sculptor off the ground. (en)
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  • جون باكلي (بالإنجليزية: John Buckley)‏ هو نحات بريطاني، ولد في 1945 في ليدز في المملكة المتحدة. (ar)
  • John Buckley (born 1945 in Leeds, England) is an English sculptor whose best known work is the sculpture "Untitled 1986", better known as "the Shark House" or "The Headington Shark" in Headington, a suburb of Oxford. Buckley went to sculpture classes in the evenings when studying for his O-levels in a technical college. He went on to Winchester School of Art and Leicester College of Art, and thereafter worked as a lorry driver and labourer while getting his career as sculptor off the ground. In 1976, his friend Bill Heine invited Buckley to design the sculptural fixtures on the Penultimate Picture Palace. For the facade Buckley chose a dramatic figure reminiscent of Al Jolson with outstretched hands. Mae West's lips were the inspiration for the cinema's door handles and, somewhat later Buckley would erect a male and a female figure above the toilet entrances, whimsically named Pearl and Dean. In 1978, a work of his (Pagliaccio) was exhibited by Nicholas Treadwell at the , and he stayed with Treadwell for some time thereafter. The "Headington 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, the shark itself weighs 203 kilograms and is 25 feet long. Buckley regards it as an integral part of "Untitled 1986" or "Shark House", a work of "Mixed Media, Brick, slates, wood, metal, polyester resin, glass, plaster, oil paint, lace curtaining and window boxes……." In the village of Checkendon in South Oxfordshire is his public work 'The Nuba Survival' which features two giant skeletons embracing each other. The piece was created in 2001 after he visited the Nuba peoples in Sudan. John Buckley is a patron of MAG (Mines Advisory Group), a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation. (en)
  • John Buckley, né à Leeds en 1945, est un sculpteur britannique. Sa plus importante sculpture est une œuvre publique sans nom réalisée en 1986, plus connue sous le nom de "The Shark House" (la maison au requin) ou "The Headington Shark" (le Requin de Headington). Cette sculpture a été construite à Headington, dans la banlieue d'Oxford, à l'occasion du 41e anniversaire du lancement de la bombe atomique sur Nagasaki. Fabriquée en fibre de verre dans une ferme proche de Wallingford, cette sculpture pèse 203 kg et mesure 7,6 mètres de haut. (fr)
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