Baldrick Buckle

1972

Officially a resident of the Netherlands, Buckle owns an apartment and studio complex in the Bijlmer district of Amsterdam but has spent almost all of the last decade in America, Australia, Japan and Singapore. Entirely financed through pavement art (large pastel replicas), the manufacture of handicrafts, impromptu and wild performances (often of music) and "general ingenuity", in an interview in De Telegraaf Buckle described this period as being "a magical chapter of life when happiness was inversely proportional to success". Bertha came to rest in Amsterdam in 1997 where Buckle co-founded the Dutch sand sculpture collective "Sandaholics Anonymous". During this period Buckle organised several other collaborations including a successful attempt to "sell sand to the Arabs", by negotiating a commission from the government of Abu Dhabi to construct the largest sand sculpture ever built in the Middle East (2001) and a year later he worked with the Football Association of Iraq to bust pre-war trade sanctions by remanufacturing and selling the official replica strip of the Iraqi national team as a fund raising and publicity campaign against the planned invasion (2002). In 2002 Buckle used the proceeds from the sale of his 50% share of Sandaholics Anonymous to fund a return to academia. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in July 2007 with a degree in fine art

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Leeds College of Artist Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

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Officially a resident of the Netherlands, Buckle owns an apartment and studio complex in the Bijlmer district of Amsterdam but has spent almost all of the last decade in America, Australia, Japan and Singapore. Entirely financed through pavement art (large pastel replicas), the manufacture of handicrafts, impromptu and wild performances (often of music) and "general ingenuity", in an interview in De Telegraaf Buckle described this period as being "a magical chapter of life when happiness was inversely proportional to success". Bertha came to rest in Amsterdam in 1997 where Buckle co-founded the Dutch sand sculpture collective "Sandaholics Anonymous".

During this period Buckle organised several other collaborations including a successful attempt to "sell sand to the Arabs", by negotiating a commission from the government of Abu Dhabi to construct the largest sand sculpture ever built in the Middle East (2001) and a year later he worked with the Football Association of Iraq to bust pre-war trade sanctions by remanufacturing and selling the official replica strip of the Iraqi national team as a fund raising and publicity campaign against the planned invasion (2002).

In 2002 Buckle used the proceeds from the sale of his 50% share of Sandaholics Anonymous to fund a return to academia. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in July 2007 with a degree in fine art

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