Humphrey Ocean RA
https://www.humphreyocean.com/biography/chronology/
Humphrey Ocean is a painter. For a brief time 1971-3 he played bass with Kilburn and the High Roads and in 2004 he was elected a Royal Academician. In 1988 he went to Northern Brazil with the anthropologist Stephen Nugent. Their book Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks was published by Fourth Estate. In 2016 he wrote and presented The Essay for BBC Radio 3 about Impington College, the only Gropius building in Britain. In 2019 a new monograph, Humphrey Ocean by Ben Thomas and A Book of Birds by Humphrey Ocean were published by RA Publications. Most recently, in 2024, he showed That was close at DKUK in Peckham, London and Das Bild und sein Buch at Christine König Chapter III, Vienna. His work is in public collections including British Council, British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Imperial War Museum, National Galleries Scotland: Portrait, Government Art Collection and The Whitworth, University of Manchester. He lives and works in London.
