Born 1937 in Durban, South Africa
Died 2004 in Durban, South Africa

artSPACE berlin

Deryck Healey was born in Durban in 1937 and rose to fame in the UK as a graphic artist and design consultant. Healey had numerous one-man exhibitions all over the world, and contributed to several international art publications. A master designer and colourist, he was, in his words, “searching for a world consciousness through an art of concern”. He died in his home in Durban in 2004. – Peter Machen, Durban – a paradise and its people

1955 - 1958
Manchester School of Art, England

1974
Awarded the Queens Award to Industry, England

1981
Royal Society of Arts Medal for Art and Design, England

1983
Elected to the Craft Council Board, England

- 2001
Professor at The Royal College of Art, London, UK


Selected Individual Exhibitions:

2008
„Micrographs“, artSPACE durban, Durban, SA
„Meditation Works“, artSPACE berlin, Berlin, Germany
„Deryck Healey“, Wivenhoe Gallery, UK

2004
Drawings by Deryck Healey, artSPACE durban, Durban, SA

2003
„The Same Sea in Us All“, The Holden Gallery, Manchester
„Beach“, Association for Visual Arts AVA, Cape Town, SA

2001
„Objet Trouve“, NSA Gallery, Durban, SA
„Objet Trouve“, Colchester Les Livre Gallery Essex, UK
„Open Studio“ Wivenhoe in Essex, UK

1998
„The Hess Collection – New Works“, Forum d’art contemporain, Casino Luxembourg
„Back To Front“ NSA Gallery, Durban, SA

1994
„Master Class“, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA
„Art of Concern“, Base Gallery, London

1993
„Poems to My Other Self“, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA
„Neon Portraits“, Galerie Claude Fain, Paris
„Beyond All Responsible Doubt“, Glasgow
„Meditation Works“, Long & Ryle Art, London

1991
„Big Names“, Canale, Venice
„Silent Poems“, Salama-Caro Gallery, London
„Poems at Home“, Fosbury, Wiltshire

1990
„Have I Got Your Number“, Salama.Caro Gallery, London
„Are Black Heads White“, Frankfurt Art Fair
„Windows to the Sky“, Chicago Art Fair


Selected Group Exhibitions:

1993
Salama-Caro Gallery, London

1992
Monotypes, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico

1991
„The Colour Of Money“, Musèe de la Poste, Paris
Arizona State University Museum, Tempe

1990
Salama-Caro Gallery, London

1989
Cologne Art Fair


Collections:

The Hess Collection
The Montecasino Art Collecion
The Irwin E. & Kathleen Garfield Foundation


Selected Publications:

Colour, Architectural Digest, USA
Living with Colour, Macmillians, London
Living with Colour, Rand McNally, USA
Have I Got Your Number, Salama-Caro Gallery
Big Names, Canale, Venice
Open Studio, Twin Palms Publisher, New Mexico