Lot 19 , Stephen Buckley, (b.1944), Jig One, 2012, oil on board, 25 x 23 cm

Stephen Buckley
(b.1944)
Jig One, 2012
oil on board
25 x 23 cm
£2,000-3,000
Stephen Buckley has enjoyed a long painting career that spans a particularly rich and innovative period in British art. His intensely coloured, abstract works are often irregular in shape with collaged elements exhibit both playfulness and formality. Buckley describes his personal style as “oscillating between the matiere of Schwitters, the dandyism of Picabia and the intellectual rigour of Duchamp by deconstruction and reconstruction.”

Born in Leicester in 1944, he studied under Richard Hamilton at Durham University, where he was involved in the reconstruction of Duchamp's Large Glass, and then under Terry Frost and Claude Rodgers. Buckley’s own teaching career has included Canterbury College of Art, Chelsea School of Art, the Royal College of Art and he was Artist in Residence at Kings College, Cambridge (1972-74). He was appointed Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading in 1994, and Professor Emeritus in 2009. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and his work is in many public collections in the UK, including Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Australia.

Stephen Buckley lives in Hastings and has a long association with the South Coast. In 1974-76, the artist himself became the subject in his friend Howard Hodgkin’s painting, The Buckleys at Brede, made when Hodgkin stayed with the couple at Brede, near Rye.