Publications
- 1982 ‘The Ocean View’ (Plexus)
- 1990 ‘Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks’ by Stephen Nugent with drawings by Humphrey Ocean (Fourth Estate; and 1994 BrownTrout, San Francisco)
- 1997 ‘urbasuburba’ Humphrey Ocean and Jock McFadyen exhibition catalogue with a story ‘Island Life’ by Will Self (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester)
- 2001 ‘Zeebrugge by Humphrey Ocean’ (Bruges-Zeebrugge Port Authority)
- 2003 ‘how’s my driving’ introduction by Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
- 2009 ‘Humphrey Ocean Perfectly Ordinary’ introduction by David Anfam (Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury)
- 2012 ‘Humphrey Ocean Here and There’ introducton by Rod Mengham, (Jesus College, Cambridge)
- 2012 ‘A handbook of modern life’ text by Rosie Broadley (Lecturis, Eindhoven)
- 2016 ‘Humphrey Ocean: A collection’ text by Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Artisan Books)
- 2018 ‘Humphrey Ocean I've No Idea Either' (Sims Reed Gallery, London)
- 2019 Humphrey Ocean, Monograph with essay by Ben Thomas (RA Publications)
- 2019 Humphrey Ocean A Book of Birds (RA Publications)
Bibliography
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Christa Benzer, 'Spiel und Ernst der Wellen', Der Standard, 15 July 2017
