Jeffery Camp RA
Born: 17 April 1923, Oulton Broad, Suffolk, UK
Elected ARA: 26 April 1974
Elected RA: 9 May 1984
Category of Membership: Painter
Jeffery Camp studied at Lowestoft and Ipswich Schools of Art between 1939 and 1940, and subsequently at Edinburgh College of Art under William Gillies from 1941 to 1944. He was awarded an Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship in 1944 and 1945, and a David Murray Bursary for landscape painting in 1946. Camp went on to teach at Chelsea School of Art from 1960 to 1961 and at the Slade School of Art from 1963 to 1988.
Jeffery Camp RA, James at the Seaside
Camp’s first solo-exhibitions were held at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in 1959, 1961 and 1963. Subsequent solo shows were held at New Art Centre, London (1968), a retrospective at the South London Art Gallery (1973), Serpentine Gallery (1978), Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (1986 and 1990) and several shows from 1984 with Browse & Darby, London, the gallery which represents him.
Camp was elected a Member of the London Group in 1961. He was a Phillips Prizewinner in 1965 and in 1996 won the Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Camp wrote Draw and Paint (1981, 1986, Dorling Kindersley). He was elected Royal Academician in 1984 (ARA 1974) and lives and works in London.
Recent solo exhibitions
2010 Art Space Gallery, London
2007 Art Space Gallery, Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
2006 Long & Ryle, London
2005 Michael Richardson Art Space Gallery, London
2002 Art Space Gallery, London
2001 Browse & Darby, London
1999 Flowers East, London
1997 Browse & Darby, London
1993 Browse & Darby, London
1990 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
Public collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
City Art Gallery, Bradford
The British Council
Chantrey Bequest
Contemporary Art Society
Cornwall Education Department
Department of the Environment
Fermoy Art Gallery, Kings Lynn
Gloucestershire Education Department
University of London
Manchester Education Department
Norfolk Contemporary Art Society
Norwich Castle Museum
University of Nottingham
The Nuffield Organisation
Suffolk Education Department
Tate Gallery
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Royal Academy of Arts
London Transport
Read an interview with Jeffery Camp in RA Magazine
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
