Biography for Patrick Procktor RA (1936 - 2002)

Early LIfe

Procktor was born in Dublin in 1936. After serving in the Royal Navy, he studied at the Slade School, 1958–62.

Career

He started his career with huge success at the Redfern Gallery, in 1963 where he nearly sold out before the show opened in 1963.

His style was light and filled with space accompanied by fresh inviting colours used carefully.

His subjects were inspired by his extensive travels where he paintied figures, interiors and landscapes either in watercolour or etching aquatints

The books he illustrated include Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1976 and A Chinese Journey,1980, illustrated with aquatint landscapes.

Selected Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions
1963, '65, '67, '68, '69 Redfern Gallery, London
1968 Lee Nordness Gallery, New York
1970, '72, '74 Redfern Gallery, London
1975 Rochdale Art Gallery
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1980, '85, '87 Redfern Gallery, London
1985 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (and tour of the UK)
1986 Harris Museum and Art Gallery
1987 Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
1989 Davies Memorial Gallery, Powys (and tour of the UK)
1996 Redfern Gallery, London
2010 Redfern Gallery, London
2012 Huddersfield Art Gallery
2014 Galerie de France, Paris
2016 Arts University Bournemouth
2017 Redfern Gallery, London
2022-23 Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna

Selected group exhibitions
1957 Redfern Gallery, London, 'Summer Exhibition'
1959 Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition, 'Young Contemporaries'
'The Vienna Youth Festival'
1962 Art Federation Galleries, London, 'The London Group Annual Exhibition'
1963 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 'John Moores Painting Prize'
1964 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 'The New Generation'
Bradford City Art Gallery, 'Spring Exhibition'
1968 AIA Gallery, London, 'Four Works by Twelve Artists'
1969 Künstlerhaus Wien, '12 Britische Artisten: Graphik und Objekte'
1976 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 'John Moores Painting Prize'
1991 Mall Galleries, London, 'Sunday Times Watercolour Competition'
1996 Royal Academy, London, 'Summer Exhibition' (annually until 2004)
2011 Tate Britain, London, 'Watercolour'
2014 Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 'British Self-Portraits from the Ruth Borchard Collection',
2016 Redfern Gallery, London, 'Pure Romance'
2017 Tate Britain, London, 'Queer British Art 1861-1967'

Selected collections
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London
British Council Collection, London
British Museum, London
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
Government Art Collection, London
Los Angeles County Museum
Metropolitan Musem, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Portrait Gallery, London
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Museo de Arte São Paulo, Brazil
Museums Sheffield
Tate
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester