Born, 1938, Dunedin, New Zealand. Arrived Sydney 1939.   1956-60 Art Diploma Course, East Sydney Technical College 1961-62 Formed Imitation Realist Group with Michael Brown and Ross Crothall 1963 Young Contemporaries Prize, MOMAD 1964-65 Awarded Helena Rubinstein Travelling Scholarship - to Italy & UK 1966 Joined Marlborough Fine Art, London 1966-81 Lived and worked in London, France and Spain 1967 Scottish Arts Council Prize, Edinburgh Festival 1968 Cracow International Print Biennale (two prizes) 1980 Awarded the Europe Prize for Painting in Belgium 1981 Returned to Australia 1983 Perspecta exhibition AGNSW 1983-86 Lecturer, City Art Institute, Sydney 1986 In Biennale of Sydney 1986 and the Bicentennial exhibition The Great Australian Art Exhibition. 1988 ABC Production -Colin Lanceley - the Poetry of Place 1990 Awarded Order of Australia 1991 Awarded an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship by the Australian Government 1993 Delivered the Lloyd Rees Memorial Lecture 1994 Appointed to the Council of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra: Designed mosaics for the Australian International Aquatic Centre, Homebush, Sydney 1995 Presently lives and works in Sydney.
	R e p r e s e n t e d National Gallery of Australia: most state and many regional galleries, numerous public collections UK, USA, Europe - including Tate Gallery; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Guggenheim Museum, NY; Los Angeles County Museum, LA, USA.   P u b l i c a t i o n s Monograph by Charles Spencer, Editions Alecto, London, 1973. Robert Hughes and William Wright, Colin Lanceley, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1987.
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