| |  | 1938 | Born Dunedin, New Zealand | | 1939 | Moved to Sydney, Australia. | | 1954 | Apprenticed as a colour photo engraver in the printing industry in Sydney. | | | Attended evening classes at North Sydney Technical College. | | 1956-60 | Art Diploma at East Sydney Technical College. Graduated 1960. | | | Married Kay Morphett. | | 1961-62 | Formed Imitation Realist group with Michael Brown and RossCrothall. Exhibitions held in Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney. | | 1964-65 | Awarded Helena Rubenstein Travelling Scholarship - to Italy, UK. | | 1966 | Joined Marlborough Fine Art, London. First London Exhibition, February. | | 1966-81 | Continued to live and work in London, exhibiting with Marlborough Galleries in London, New York and Europe and with Waddington Galleries in London. Continued exhibiting in Australia. | | | Travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Holland, Belgium and Crete. Spent long periods working in France and Spain. | | | Lectured part-time at the Bath Academy of Art, Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and at Chelsea School of Art, London. | | 1980 | Prize winner, the Europe Prize for Painting in Belgium. Returned to work in 1980 Burgundy rather than London. | | | Decided to return to Australia. | | 1981 | Returned to Australia after a ceremonial planting of a Blue Gumoutside the studio in Burgundy. | | 1983-86 | Lecturer, City Art Institute, Sydney. |
more ...| 1986 | Travelled to New York, London, Paris. | | 1987 | Publication By Craftsman House of Colin Lanceley with an introduction by Robert Hughes. | | 1988 | Production of film by ABC, Colin Lanceley - Poetry of Place. Directed by Andrew Saw. Duration 30 minutes. | | 1990 | Awarded Order of Australia (AO). Travelled to New York. | | 1991 | Awarded a Creative Arts Fellowship from the Australian Government. Invited to lecture and exhibit at the Arts Club of Chicago. | | 1993 | Delivered the Lloyd Rees Memorial Lecture, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. | | 1994 | Appointed to the Council of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. | | | Designed mosaics for the Australian International Aquatic Centre, Homebush, Sydney. | | 1998 | Commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Lyric Theatre, Sydney. Appointed Chairman of the Advisory Board of the National Art School, Sydney. | | 1999 | Artist in residence programme at Haefligers Cottage, Hill End, on the New South Wales goldfields. | | 2000 | Invited to lecture at Bathurst Regional Gallery with some background to the Hill End works. | | | Beyond The Frame project for the Department of Education in the Illawarra region. | | 2001 | Subject of an installation mounted by the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Australian 2001 Collection Focus series. Invited to lecture at the New York Studio school. | | 2002 | Commissioned to create a large glass work for the Victorian County Court |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2010 | 'The Gaudí Quartet and other lyrical digressions', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2007 | 'Some Recent Works', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2006 | 'The First Branch', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2005 | ‘Recent Constructed Paintings and Drawings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Personage’, The Figure on Paper, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 2004 | ‘New Drawings’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 2003 | ‘Colin Lanceley: Recent Paintings’, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Wollongong City Gallery
| | 2001 | ‘Colin Lanceley: Recent Paintings’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Australian Collection Focus - Colin Lanceley’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Exhibition 124A’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
| | 2000 | ‘Two Modern Masters’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
| | ‘Summer Exhibition’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney.
| | ‘Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | 1999 | ‘Important International and Australian Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
| | ‘Old and New’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
| | 1997 | Za Mola Foundation, Japan
| | ‘The AMCOR Works on Paper Awards’, Melbourne
| | 1995 | ‘Windows on Australia 1’, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
| | Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
| | Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
| | ‘Patrick Heron and Colin Lanceley: Recent Works on Paper’, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
| | 1994 | ‘New Constructed Paintings and Drawings’, Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York
| | 1993 | ‘Summer Exhibition’, Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York
| | ‘Selected Recent Works’, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
| | 1992 | ‘Australian Masters’, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘200 Years of Australian Painting’, National Museum of Western Art,Tokyo.
| | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto
| | ‘1952-1992’, Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York
| | 1991 | Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York
| | The Arts Club of Chicago
| | 1990 | ‘2nd Australian Contemporary Arts Fair’, Melbourne
| | Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
| | 1989 | Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
| | Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York
| | 1988 | ‘Australian Tapestries’, National Gallery of Victoria
| | ‘The Illawarra and Environs’, Wollongong City Gallery
| | ‘The Great Australian Art Exhibition’, Rex Irwin Art Dealer
| | 1987 | ‘Colin Lanceley - A Survey Exhibition 1961-1987’, curated by
| | William Wright, Art Gallery of New South Wales
| | ‘Works on Paper’ (with Daws and Leach-Jones), Bonython-Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1986 | ‘The Sixth Biennale of Sydney’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
| | Colin Lanceley - Recent Paintings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York.
| | 1985 | ‘A Salute to Lloyd Rees’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Recent Paintings’, Drawings, Prints, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘The Drawn Image’, Penrith Regional Art gallery, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
| | ‘The Sixth Biennale of Sydney’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
| | ‘Irreverent Sculpture’, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1984 | ‘The Studio’, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
| | ‘Work in Progress’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
| | 1983 | ‘Australian Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
| | 1982 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | The Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
| | 1981 | ‘2 Biennale der Europaischen Grafik’, Baden Baden, West Germany
| | 1980 | Waddington Galleries, London
| | ‘Europa Prijs 1980’, Ostend, Musee de Verviers, Belgium
| | ‘XV International Malervochen’, Neue Gallery, Graz
| | ‘John Moors Liverpool’ Exhibition 12
| | 1978 | Realities Gallery, Melbourne
| | Phillip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
| | 1976 | ‘Survey of Fifteen Years Work’, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Colin Lanceley Complete Prints’, Tate Gallery, London
| | 1975 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
| | 1974 | Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1973 | Marlborough Gallery, London
| | Bonython Gallery, Sydney
| | Realities Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1972 | Galerie Pryzmat, Krakow
| | 1971 | ‘Seven Marlborough Artists’, Marlborough Graphics, London
| | 1970 | Bonython Gallery, Sydney
| | 1968 | Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
| | British Kunst Heute, Kunstvrein, Hamburg
| | British Artists, Galerie Veranneman, Brussels
| | 1967 | Galerie Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Basie Galerie, Alice Pauli, Lausanne
| | ‘Ventures’, Arts Council of Great Britain
| | 1966 | Marlborough gallery, London
| | 1965 | Gallery A, Sydney
| | 1964 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1963 | Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
| | 1962 | Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Imitation Realists’, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
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Group Exhibitions | | | 2011 | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | 2010 | 'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2009 | 'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2007 | 'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | 'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
CollectionsInternational Albion College, Michigan, USA Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, USA Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris Chartwell Collection, Waikato Museum, New Zealand Contemporary Art Society, London Kunstvrein, Hamburg, Germany Museum Goronslaskie, Bytom, Poland Museum Narodowe, Krakow, Poland Museum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA Museum of Modern Art, New York Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Tate Gallery, London The Arts Council of Great Britain, Manchester, UK The British Government Art Collection, London The Los Angeles County Museum, LA The National Gallery, Washington The Ravinia Festival Association, Chicago The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Australian Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Artbank, Sydney Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Kedumba Collection Manly Art Gallery, Sydney Mildura Art Gallery, Victoria Mosman Regional Art Gallery Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin and Alice Springs National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne New England Regional Art Gallery Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Rockhampton City Art Gallery TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria The Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne University Collections throughout Australia Wollongong City Gallery
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