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Sculpture

Headington Shark

by John Buckley · b. 1945

1986-08-09 Headington, Oxford

ceridwen · CC BY-SA 2.0

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The Headington Shark is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art, put up without permission, to be symbolic of bombs crashing into buildings.

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John Buckley

b. 1945 · United Kingdom

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