John Buckley has what is known in the profession as 'an excellent eye'; which means he not only has the experience and knowledge to know which artist's to buy, he can also distinguish an artists good works from the less successful: a talent not possessed by many.
Betty Churcher OAM
I have worked with John Buckley on both commercial and residential projects for the past 30 years and consider his depth of knowledge of the arts in Australia to be second to none. His eye for the best of Modern art is quite extraordinary and to be present when John is hanging a particular work in a given situation is to see a master at work.
Janne Faulkner, AM, Director – Nexus Designs
About
John Buckley has been one of Australia’s leading art-consultant since 1979. He was director of the IMA from 1976 to 1969 and Founding director of the ACCA from 1984 to 1985. He has been Australian commissioner at the Paris Biennale 1983. Since 2000 he has run a commercial gallery.
Buckley has curated important exhibitions of international art, including the late works of Philip Guston and Robert Mapplethorpe. He has also arranged visits of prominent artists to Australia including Keith Haring, Michael Craig-Martin, Rodney Allan Grenblatt, Carl André and William T Wiley.
Among the exhibitions of Australian art curated by Buckley is the first major retrospective show of Sidney Nolan’s works on paper in the late 70s and Nocturne: Images of Night and Darkness in Australian Art from Colonial to Contemporary in 2002.
Collections curated by Buckley include the Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, which is now part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. He has acted as an advisor to a number of major private and corporate collectors including the Michael Buxton Collection,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deutsche Bank, the Westin Hotel and is the current advisor to the Grand Hyatt, Melbourne.