Colin Lanceley

Lanceley’s collaboration with Fred Genis at the Kenthurst studio was one of the most sustained and productive in the Australian collection, spanning from the mid-1980s through to the late 1990s. The 1985 Places series of seven prints — ranging from the Blue Mountains and Kakadu to the French countryside at La Tranche Sur Mer and the road to Chablis — reflects his cosmopolitan sensibility and his gift for distilling a sense of place into lyrical, richly layered compositions. The positive and negative variants of Vintage Landscape, Blue Mountains, and Balmoral demonstrate his systematic exploration of how the same image transforms through tonal reversal — a printmaker’s curiosity that speaks to genuine engagement with the medium.

His later works — the Stormy Weather, Rock Pool, Night Garden, and Mangroves series of four — show a deepening engagement with the Australian coastal landscape, rendered with the same poetic intelligence and technical sophistication that defines his finest work.

Colin Lanceley died in Sydney in 2015. His work is held in every major Australian public collection and the Tate Modern in London.