Geoffrey Hampton Deeley
Born 1912
Active: 1935 - 1952
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, teacher, model maker
Born in Dudley, Staffordshire. He was one of the principal model makers at the Central Interpretation Unit at RAF Medmenham during the Second World War. The Medmenham Collection has records of interviews with him about his wartime work.
This record includes information submitted by Tim Fryer.
Works
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Angel Fish
1938 (Presumed)
Cyrene
1939 (Circa)
Locations
Address 19 Arch Hill Street Netherton Dudley | View on map
1937 - 1939
Studio located in The Studio, Selwood Place Onslow Gardens London | View on map
1939
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Federation of Midland Art Societies Exhibition, 1938
'Angel Fish'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1939
Multiple works
Won prize The British School at Rome Scholarship in Sculpture
1935
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
28 March 1939
Associate Member.
Studied at Wolverhampton Municipal School of Art and Crafts
Studied under R. J. Emerson (appointed in 1910) and was a winner of the Prix de Rome sholarship. (See Flynn (1984), p. 6).
Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Deeley was also awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture in the same year.
Teacher of modeling at Polytechnic School of Art, Regent Street
September 1938 - 1952
Note that in the 1941-1942 prospectus Deeley is listed on the teaching staff, but also as 'serving with H. M. Forces'. He is not listed from 1942-1943 to 1945-1946. Deeley is listed again as a teacher of sculpture in the 1946-1947 prospectus. He is still listed in the 1951-1952 prospectus, the final year sampled by this database.
Personal and Professional Connections
Friends with Mary Gwenllian Gibson
Gibson and Deeley were part of a circle of artists and friends who met in Robert Jackson's Castle Street studio.
Studied under Robert Jackson Emerson
In the early 1930s
Sources
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Geoffrey H Deeley
Year of Registration: 1912
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's Maiden Name: Hampton
District: Dudley (To 1912)
County: Staffordshire, Worcestershire
Volume: 6c
Page: 261
R. J. Emerson FRBS RBSA (1878-1944), 1984
1984
p. 6.
Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 20 July 1934
20 July 1934
p. 1.
The British School at Rome: one hundred years
2001
p. 211
The Federation of Midland Art Societies, 1938
June 1938
Unpaged.
The Polytechnic Education Department. Prospectuses. Session 1938-1939 Regent Street Polytechnic
1938
p. 13.
The Polytechnic School of Art. Session, 1941-1942 Regent Street Polytechnic
1941
p. 24.
The Polytechnic School of Art. Session, 1946-1947 Regent Street Polytechnic
1946
p. 2.
The Polytechnic School of Art. Session, 1951-1952 Regent Street Polytechnic
1951
p. 85.
Citing this record
'Geoffrey Hampton Deeley', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1226330298, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
