David Buckland is a designer, artist and film-maker 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. Five books of his 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. _Buckland’s work was shown at the UN Exhibition for World Environment Day, an exhibition which toured worldwide.
Since 2000 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. They have sailed on seven successful expeditions into the High Arctic aboard the schooner Noorderlicht. The results of the expeditions have led to a range of outcomes, including a major exhibition, the publication of the book ‘Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change’, a BBC broadcast of the film ‘Art from the Arctic.’ The exhibition ‘Art & Climate Change’ was first shown at the Natural History Museum (London, 2006) then Kampnagel (Hamburg, 2007), Fundación Canal (Madrid, 2008) and the Mirakain (Tokyo, 2008).
Buckland continues to make and exhibit artworks. In 2007 he projected onto the Gehry stage, Millennium Park Chicago an hour-long video work ‘Arctic’ made in collaboration with the sound artist Max Eastley.
