Born in Cork, Ireland 1957. Attended Crawford School of Art, Cork in 1975 and completed Post Grad. Studies in Sculpture and Photography in 1980. Based in Scotland for the past 19 years.
Part-time lecturer is Sculpture, Glasgow School of Art 1983-88. Co-Founder and Chairman of Glasgow Sculpture Studios 1988 – 91. Lecturer in Sculpture, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, since 1989 and Subject Leader in Sculpture 1995 –2001. Board of Directors, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen since 1996. Member of Visual Arts Awards Panel, Scottish Arts Council 2000 and Artists Awards Panel, Glasgow City Council 1999 – 01.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMISSIONS SINCE 1990
2003
:neon, CCA Glasgow. First in a series of site-specific works at CCA by J2 (Jim Buckley & Jim Hamlyn)
2002
Light Flow, The Space, School of Contemporary Dance, Dundee College, Dundee. *
Thresholds, a series of site-specific artworks integrated into the fabric of the new school and community building. Fortrose, Black Isle, Scotland. Highland Council commission.
2000
Fall, R&H Hall, Cork, Ireland. Temporary Public Art Work, Fall is a single image large format slide projection of a waterfall, ( Bushkill Falls, Pennsylvania) projected on to the facade of R&H Hall grain silo at Kennedy Quay in Cork City. The work was commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory and Triskel Art Centre as the first in a series of temporary public art projects which bring attention to neglected architecture in run down parts of the city.
Flow, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin. Permanent.
With Flow I wrapped Fibre-Optics around the branches of two trees beside The Deputy Masters House so that green and lavender light punctuate and connect the architectural and landscape features of the site as well as creating a feeling of calm and serenity. The audience’s experience of the work changes in relation to the time of day or night, the foliage on the trees, the weather conditions and the time of year.
Thin Blue Line, commission for Star Cinema, Thurso, Scotland. AIP Commission
1999
’All that Glisters…..’, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham.. PACA Commission.
Fade away and Radiate(FAAR), Generator, Dundee..
1998
Blue Velvet commission for Cineworld, Shrewsbury. Collaboration with Jim Hamlyn.*
Fold, Manningham Mill, Bradford England: Photo 98 Commission.*
1996
Connexion Mauve, Installation, Lille, France. I created this work for the Imaginaire Irlandais exhibition. I attached mauve filters to the internal lighting of 21 triple telephone kiosks in the centre of the town, thereby transforming everyday pieces of street furniture, at night, into beacons which seeped a particular quality of light into the atmosphere.
1995
Neon Installation, Fitzwilliam Square, Green on Red, Dublin.
Jim Buckley, New Work, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Jim Buckley, Morioka Crystal Gallery, Morioka, Japan.
Photo commission for @Art Connexion, Lille, France
1994
Kyoni Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.*
INTERIM, Triskel Art Centre, Cork, Ireland.
The Witches Tower, Light installation, Slupsk, Poland,
1993
Flood, Meiho, Japan. Light work installation in abandoned fish farm.
ACCESS Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries, Scotland. *
1992
ACCESS, Tully House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, England. *
ACCESS, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, England.*
ACCESS, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.*
ILLUMINATIONS, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.*
1990
Glasgow Milestones, Dennistoun Sculpture commission, Glasgow.*
British Institute of Management Awards, Glasgow 1990. Commission
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1990
2003
Somewhere: places of refuge in art and life, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England*
RECENT ADDITIONS: a public art initiative, Port Glasgow Old Library, Scotland
Somewhere: places of refuge in art and life, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, England*
2002
Open Studio, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
Somewhere: places of refuge in art and life, Angel Row Gallery,Nottingham, England*
New, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Apartment, tranceformation project, Aberdeen. www.tranceformations.org.uk/projects
2001
Hear and Now, Scottish Art 1990 to 2000, McManus Galleries Dundee, Scotland. *
I’m a stranger here myself, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh. ( with the artist collective e@t )
Blue Skies, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh. (collaborative work as part of e@t ) *
1999
Illuminations: artists using light as a medium: Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool,England.*
*IMAGINE ABERDEEN……IMAGINE THE BEACH, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Fade away and Radiate (FAAR), Generator, Dundee
tranistors, Royal Scottish Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
ALL THAT GLISTERS, Jewellery Quarter ,Birmingham
1998
tranistors, Trondhems Kunstforening, Bispegt 9A, Trondheim, Norway
tranistors, Morioka Hashimoto Museum of Art, Japan. *
1997
European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
1996
Imaginaire irlandais, @Art Connexion, Lille, France. *
Imagine all the people…. Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
City Limits, Staffordshire University, Stoke.
1995
Irish Steel, The Model Art Centre, Sligo; Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland. *Art Container, Ricen Museum, Cebu, Philippines.
Swarm, Scottish Arts Council Travelling Gallery. *
Building Blocks, Ikon Touring, Birmingham, England.
Art Container, Suri Sumi Kohen Kankio Center, Meiho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
1994
Small World-Small Work, Galerie + Edition Caoc, Berlin.
Worlds in a Box, City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Graves Art Centre, Sheffield;
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. *
The sum of all parts, City Art Centre ,Edinburgh. *
Installation, House Project, Ugawa, Meiho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, October 1994.
New Visions, International Festival of Video and Film, GFT Glasgow.
Meiho International Art Symposium, Meiho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
Übergänge, Galeria Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Two Person Exhibition, with Sandra Johnston, Front Art Gallery, Berlin,
Irish Days II, Baltic Art Centre, Ustka, Poland.
1993
A Barrel of Whiskey, Kyoni Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Myogata International Art Symposium Exhibition, Meiho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan Open Crossing, BBK Gallery Dusseldorf, Germany. *
Home and Away, Intermedia Gallery, 65 Virginia St., Glasgow, Scotland.
1992
Human Properties, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England.
Salon Glasgow, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland.
1991
EspaCe, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. *
Parable Island, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England. *
Kunst Europa, Kunstverein, Konstanz, Germany. *
Speed, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
1990
New Directions in Scottish Sculpture, The Barbican Centre, London. *
* denotes publication
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY SINCE 1990
Circa 95, REVIEWS, Cork…Jim Buckley, Fall, Alannah Hopkins, 2001
Contemporary Sculpture in Scotland, Andrew Patrizio, pub. Craftsman House, Sydney,1999
PUBLIC SIGHTINGS, The Public Art Programme of the UK Year of Photography and Electronic Image, Ed Andrew Cross & Simon Grennan, Pub. PhotoArts 2000, 1999.
1998 Yorkshire, UK Region of PHOTOGRAPHY & ELECTRONIC IMAGE, pub. The Arts Council of England 1998.
Fold, Jim Buckley: an APT Film and TV Production for Channel 4 Television, May 12 1998
Art & Design, Public Art, Profile No 46, THERE’S NOT MUCH ART THAT’S LIKE A GOOD STORY, Judith Finlay, 1996, pp 8 – 15
The Sunday Times, Jim Buckley, Green on Red Gallery, 7 May 1995. MedbRuane p52
Circa 69, Irish Days II, Autumn 94, Sandra Johnson & Brian Connolly. pp53 – 57.
Gallery 12,1994,( monthly art magazine ) Interview with a Key Person in Tokyo,Takahiko Honda
The Japan Times, Artists boxes reveal other dimensions’, Angela Jeffs, , Sept. 18 1994. p12
Jim Buckley, published by The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen to coincide with exhibition at Kyoni Gallery, Tokyo, Euan McArthur September 1994. 24pp
Worlds in a Box, The South Bank Centre, Touring Exhibition catalogue, 1994.p18
The Sum of All Parts, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Jane Warrilow, May 1994.
VARIANT, Recent Art in Glasgow, review, issue 12, 1992, Craig Richardson.
ACCESS, Jim Buckley, Euan Mcarthur. pub Collins Gallery, Glasgow. May 1992
Human Properties, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, review, Kaleidoscope, Radio 4, 3rd Feb1992
Human Properties, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, review, Robert Clark, Guardian, 4th Feb 1992.
EspaCe, Dublin, August 1991, The Sculptors Society of Ireland, exhibition catalogue.
INTERVALS, Glasgow, May 1991, review, VARIANT issue 9 Autumn 1991,Fiona Byrne Sutton.
KUNST, EUROPA, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine, Germany, ex catalogue, 1991.
PARABLE ISLAND, Some Aspects of Recent Irish Art, Brian McAvera, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England, exhibition catalogue, 1991.
ILLUMINATIONS, Jim Buckley, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, catalogue, 1991.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN SCOTTISH SCULPTURE, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, exhibition catalogue, 1990.
AWARDS SINCE 1990
2003
Scottish Arts Council, Creative Scotland Award
1999
Scottish Arts Council, Small Assistance Grant.
1995
Scottish Arts Council, Small Assistance Grant.
Arts Council of Ireland Bursary. (exhibition Morioka Crystal Gallery, Japan)
1994
Glasgow District Council Grant (exhibition, Kyoni Gallery, Tokyo )
Scottish Arts Council, Small Assistance Grant.( exhibition, Kyoni Gallery, Tokyo )
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation grant ( International Art Symposium, Meiho, Japan.)
1993
Glasgow District Council. ( Japan )
Carnegie Trust/ Grays School of Art. (Japan )
British Council, Kyoto, Travel Grant. ( Japan )
Scottish Arts Council, Small Assistance Grant.
1991
Scottish Arts Council Bursary.
Hope Scott Trust Award.
COLLECTIONS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland
Cork City Corporation, Cork, Ireland
Contemporary Irish Art Society, Dublin, Ireland
’Forma Viva’, Ravne, Yugoslavia.
Szatmar Museum, Hungary.
Le Ministere de la Culture Francaise.
Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaoin, Dublin, Ireland
Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Glasgow City Council, Glasgow, Scotland
Viking Bowl, Thurso, Scotland
Motherwell District Council, Scotland
The Highland Council, Scotland
Private collections in Scotland, Ireland, England and Japan.
CURRENT PROJECTS
CCA, Glasgow. Collaboration with Jim Hamlyn on a series of site specific works using light, wind, water and glass, which respond to the CCA venue a year after its re-launch. Research and development ongoing. First project CCA: Neon completed in Jan 2003.
Aberdeen Beach, (’The Strip’, a half mile section along the Promenade which represents the historical centre of activity at the beach) As part of a major environmental improvement project I was selected to create work using light which will enhance the built environment and bring a distinctive and coherent image to the area. Other artists selected in the overall project include Vito Acconci. Art in Partnership commission.
Inverclyde Public Artwork. Shortlisted to develop public artworks along the A8 corridor in Port Glasgow. Research and development stage Feb/ April 2003.
The New Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen Commissioned to design a new light-tower for courtyard 1. Design development stage Jan/April 2003. Production stage May – October 2003. Commissioned by PACE, Edinburgh.
A13 Towers, London Collaboration with Tom de Paor architect, b consultants, artists Julie Myers and Gudrun Bielz on three 30 metre towers located along six miles of the A13 in the east end of London. Each tower is designed to respond to the environment incorporating elements such as planting, sound and light. Design stage May- July 2003. Commissioned by pArts.
