BIOGRAPHY

1951 Born near Bristol
1975 Fine Art foundation course, Cardiff
1976-79 Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham – BA (Hons) Fine Art
1979-80 Manchester Polytechnic – MA Fine Art
1980-81 Awarded a Fellowship – Gloucester College Art and Technology, Cheltenham, Fellow in
Sculpture
1984 Awarded a grant by Southern Arts to become Artist in Residence for the Borough of
Thamesdown, in a regeneration area in Swindon. This led to Buck adopting bronze as his
preferred medium and developing a close collaboration with Pangolin Editions
1990 Elected to Royal West of England Academy
1994 Elected to Royal Society of British Sculptors
1995 Caerphilly Town Centre Enhancement Scheme
1998 Chosen to be part of a team for the enhancement and refurbishment of Deal Pier –
this involved a major public consultation scheme & collaboration with planners and
landscape architects form Kent County. The resulting work won the 1999 Rouse Kent
Award for Public Art
2004 Gave a sculpture workshop at Makerere University, Kampala on behalf to the Ruwenzori
Sculpture Foundation.
2007 Returned to Uganda to undertake further design research into tribal and clan totems for
the Foundation.
2012 Elected Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Jon Buck: Telltale Forms, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2022 Jon Buck: Patterns of Change, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2021 March of Mutability, Gallery Pangolin, Museum in the Park, Stroud
2019 Jon Buck: Time of Our Lives, Pangolin London & Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
2015 Jon Buck: Coded for Colour, Pangolin London
PANGOLIN LONDON, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
T: 020 7520 1480 www.pangolinlondon.com
2014 Without Word, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
Sculpture Showcase’ Pangolin London, Kings Place, London
2012 Turning Inside Out, Pangolin London, Kings Place, London
2011 Making a Point: the Point of Making, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire.
Accompanied by a specially published book of the same title
2010 Stirred for a Bird, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
2009 Behind The Lines, Pangolin London
2005 Odd Birds and Other Selves, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
2001 Courcoux and Courcoux, Stockbridge, Hants
2000 Intimate Connections, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
1995 One Man Show, Combs Contemporary, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Animal Instinct, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2025 Earth Unwrapped, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2021 Sculptors’ Works on Paper, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2021 Craving Colour, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2020 Nature Unwrapped, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2019 Sculpture Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2018 Sculptors’ Maquettes, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
Decade: 10 Year Anniversary, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2017 ARK, Chester Cathedral, Chester
2016 Jubilee, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
Nature of the Beast, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
Sculpture in the Garden, Pangolin London, Kings Place
2015 Toro, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
Sculptors’ Prints & Drawings, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
Sculptors’ Prints & Drawings, Pangolin London
2014 Sculptors’ Prints & Drawings, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
2013 Sculptors’ Prints & Drawings, Part of Impress ’13, International Printmaking Festival,
Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
2012 Sculptors’ Drawings & Works on Paper,Pangolin London, Kings Place, London
2010 Crucible – the Sculpture Show of the Decade, Gloucester Cathedral
Figuring it Out, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
2008 Image, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire
20/21, Royal College of Art, London
2007 Art London, Chelsea, London
2006 Art London, Chelsea, London
Animals and Birds, Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf, London
2005 Out of the Melting Pot, Parc Heintz, Luxembourg
2003 Tooth and Clay, Royal West
BLOK, Festival of Sculpture, Canterbury
Sterling Stuff, Reyjavik Museum, Iceland
Sterling Stuff, Royal Academy of Art, London
Synergy, UBS, Curzon Street, London
Introspect, Gallery Pangolin, Stroud, Gloucestershire
2002 Sterling Stuff, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Fantastic Animals, Donjon de Vez, Paris
Thinking Big: small work for large projects, Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice

2001 Sculpture at Goodwood, West Sussex
2000 BRONZE: contemporary sculpture, Holland Park, London
1999 The Shape of the Century: 100 years of Sculpture in Britain, shown at Salisbury
Cathedral and Canary Wharf, London
1998 Eye to I, Les Brasseurs Gallery, Liege, Belgium
Zoosculpt 98, London Zoo
RWA Academicians Exhibition, Bristol
1997 Albemarle Gallery, London
Thirty years of Cheltenham Fellows, Cheltenham
Sixteen Sculptors, Sladmore Gallery, London
1996 Monumental, Helan Arts Foundation, Belgium
Galerie Ellison- Marshall, Bordeaux, France
1995 Tower Bridge Expo, London
Biennual Exhibition, Deans Court, Dorset
Animal Magnetism, Hanina Gallery, London
Bronze, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough
COMMISSIONS
2018 In Man’s Nature, 240cm high bronze, Uniciti Sculpture Park, Mauritius
2007 Ship to Shore, 300cm high bronze, Portishead Quays, North Somerset
2005 Aurora, 50cm high bronze, Haberdasher’s Livery Hall, City of London
2004 Flat Out, 200cm high bronze, Centre for Sport, Exercise and Health, Bristol University
2002 Family, 170cm high bronze, Paddington Central Development, London
2001 Equilibrium, 165cm high bronze, Milton Keynes General Hospital
Goodwood Goddess, 220cm high bronze, Cass Sculpture Foundation, East Sussex
2000 In the Swim, 200 cm high bronze, West Quay Shopping Centre, Southampton
Family, 170cm high bronze, Milton Keynes General Hospital
1999 Returning to Embrace, 150cm high bronze, Canary Wharf, London
1998 Embracing the Sea, 300cm high bronze, Deal Pier, Kent
1996 New Age, 90cm high bronze, New Consulate General Building, Hong Kong

PUBLICATIONS

Sculpture at Canary Wharf: A Decade of Exhibitions, Canary Wharf PLC, 2011
Jon Buck: Coded for Colour, Pangolin London, 2015
Superhumanism 2 – A Survey of a Current Art Movement, Nicholas Treadwell
Publications, 1982
Art for Public Places, Malcolm Miles Winchester School of Art Press, 1989
The Encyclopedia of Sculpting Techniques, John Plowman, Running Press, 1995
The Alchemy of Sculpture, Tony Birks-Hay, Marston House, 2004
Bronze: Contemporary British Sculpture Holland Park, Royal Borough of Kensington &
Chelsea Libraries & Arts Service, 2000
Concepts for Twenty First British Sculpture: Thinking Big, Sculpture at Goodwood, 2002
A Vision for Twenty First British Sculpture, Sculpture at Goodwood, 2002
Sculpture at Goodwood – British Contemporary Sculpture 02/03, Sculpture at
Goodwood, 2002
Modern British Sculpture, Guy Portelli, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2005
Bronze Sculpture – Casting and Patination – Mud Fire Metal, Steve Hurst, Schiffer
Publishing Ltd, 2005