Draft:David Buckland

David Buckland is an artist, film-maker, writer and curator.

In 2001, Buckland created and now directs the international Cape Farewell project. Bringing artists, visionaries, scientists and educators together, Cape Farewell continues to build an international collective awareness and the cultural response to climate disruption. Over 300 artists have created operas, films, artworks, pop music and novels which address the climate challenge and through the process of making art, vision a sustainable and exciting cultural future. The Archive of Cape Farewell is being taken by the Nevada Museum of Art, USA.

Buckland co-curated eARTh for the Royal Academy, London in 2009 and curated three major exhibitions: the ‘CARBON 12’ exhibition, Paris in May 2012; ‘CARBON 13’ for Ballroom Marfa Texas in September 2012; and ‘CARBON 14’ for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, September 2013. All contained new artworks by international artists and cultural practioners, each addressing climate disruption and the mechanics of a desired cultural shift.

Buckland directed ‘Dwell Time’ for the BBC in 1994 and produced ‘Art from the Arctic’, directed by David Hinton, broadcast on BBC Two in 2006. He produced ‘Burning Ice’ with director Peter Gilbert for Sundance television 2014.

Exhibitions
His solo exhibitions include the Musée National d’Art Modern, Paris 1980; the Sander Gallery, New York 1984; The Photographers' Gallery London in 1987; Espace Photographique de la Ville de Paris, 1987; the Minneapolis Institute of Art 1989; The Museum of Contemporary Photography 1990; Zwemmer Gallery, London, 1994; The National Portrait Gallery, London 1999. His work is included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Michael Wilson Collection, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Monographs
David Buckland/Paris; The Agri Economy, Chicago; Performances 1999, London. 1990. With Sir Antony Caro, the Last Judgement, 2006. Burning Ice / Cape Farewell, 2006. U-n-f-o-l-d, 2012.

Essays include Burning Ice 2006;  ‘Climate is Culture’ for Nature March 2012; Carbon 12, published by Somogy Editions d’Art; EXPEDITION published by University of Arts, London; The Cultural Challenge of Climate Change, South Atlantic Quarterly 2017; Exchange with Chris Drury and Kay Syad, Little Toller Press 2019; Critique - Ecology and Art Practice, Art in the Age of Planetary Destruction, Welcome, 2024.