Photo: David Buckland

David Buckland is a designer, artist and filmmaker whose lens-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries in London, Paris and New York and collected by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Getty Collection, Los Angeles amongst others.

Since 2001 Buckland has created and now directs the Cape Farewell project, whose ambition is to bring artists, scientists and educators together to collectively address and raise awareness about climate change. Participants in the project’s three successful expeditions into the High Arctic to date have included Antony Gormley, Gary Hume, Rachel Whiteread, Siobhan Davies, Ian McEwan and Gretel Erlich, among others. The Cape Farewell project has been the subject of the film Art From A Changing Climate, and the book Burning Ice, and the art resulting from these journeys has been exhibited at the Natural History Museum, London, the Liverpool Biennial and the Sage Gateshead, Newcastle.

Five books of Buckland’s photographs have been published including works on the Trojan Wars and The Last Judgment featuring the sculptures of Sir Anthony Caro, and two monographs of his own work. He has designed over 20 stage sets, as well as costumes, for The Royal Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, Second Stride, Compagnie Cré-Ange and Siobhan Davies Dance Company. His short film for the Dance for the Camera season Dwell Time was broadcast on BBC1 in January 1996.

In 1999 Buckland presented a one-man show of digitally mastered portraits of performers at London’s National Portrait Gallery, which attracted over 100,000 visitors. Three new commissions, all in the USA, from MasterCard, Vanguard Insurance and Royal Caribbean have just been completed. Each entailed huge digital constructions on glass for the new atriums of each company.

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(l to r): Max Eastley, Charlie Kronick, Nick Edwards, Alex Harley, Antony Gormley, Peter Clegg, Siobahn Davies, Rachel Whiteread, Gautier Deblonde, David Buckland, Tom Wakeford, Heather Ackroyd, Dan Harvey and Ian McEwan. Previous Next Close	Previous Next Close	Previous Next Close	Previous Next Close	The book Burning Ice includes images of the Cape Farewell expeditions, artworks, and exhibitions, as well as essays by ecologists, climatologists, scientists, curators and novelists. Previous Next Close
The 2005 Cape Farewell crew Photo: Cape Farewell	Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey Ice Lens, 2005 Photo: Cape Farewell	Antony Gormley and Peter Clegg Shelter, 2005 Photo: Cape Farewell	From the exhibition Cape Farewell: Art & Climage Change Liverpool Biennial Photo: Cape Farewell	Burning Ice: Art & Climage Change, 2005 Photo: Cape Farewell