Joseph Bucklow is a British artist, living and working in London.

b. 1986

Using imagination, memory and photography as sources of inspiration, my paintings capture landscapes, urban scenes and the people within them imbued with a strong cinematic and theatrical influence. The images tend to be brooding, half-seen poetic visions that blur the lines between nostalgia and history, theatre and reality.

These semi-imagined settings are transmitted to the viewer and offer a glimpse into worlds that are at once familiar and unknown. The work evokes a faded recollection, but also the unease and dynamism of the unexplored, providing enough visual information for the viewer’s acquisition of bearings but opportunity for uncertainty and questioning.

My painting features both an illustrative use of line and detail along with expressive and gestural brushwork, layered to construct these spaces within which the mind can dwell and hear itself echo.

The images encourage the viewer to dwell upon the forgotten and mundane elements of our surroundings whilst elevating the sense of solitude and the peace found in seclusion and present an opportunity for the intensely private moments often experienced within a vast space.

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ACS Studio Prize Shortlist, July 2023.

ACS Studio Prize Shortlist, August 2022.

ACS Studio Prize Finalist. October 2021

ACS Studio Prize Shortlist. July 2019

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Emerging Landscape Painting Today, Messums London, Oct 2024

Reverence, Purslane online show. July 2024.

Promises to Keep, The Violet Hour online show. June 2024.

Mise-en-Scène, Act 2 — 44 Hallam St, London, Brushes with Greatness. Jan - June 2024.

The Peace of Wild Things, The Violet Hour. Nov 2023.

Ode to Autumn, The Violet Hour. Oct 2023.

Knowle Hill, The Split Gallery, London. July 2023.

Mise-en-Scène, Act 1 — 44 Hallam St, London, Brushes with Greatness. June - Dec 2023.

Synergy - Platform 1 Gallery, London. Nov/Dec 2022.

Gertrude Presents - The Truman Brewery, London. Oct 2022.

Young Once Only - All Saints Road, The Violet Hour. May 2022.

Constant Stars - Online Group Show, The Violet Hour. Dec 2021.

In a New Light - Online Group Show, Art City Works. Aug 2021.

Young Art Collector ‘Selects’, Online Group Show. July 2021.

Green Fires - Online Group Show, The Violet Hour. Apr 2021.

Momentum - Online Group Show, The Holy Art. Feb 2021.

On the Strangest Sea - Online Group Show, The Violet Hour. Nov 2020.

This is The House we Built. Feb, 2020

MA Graduate Show - City & Guilds London Art School. Sept 2019

Education

MA Fine Art, City and Guilds London Art School - 2019.

BA History, University of Glasgow - 2010.