LEACH-JONES Alun

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Biography
1983-1997 Lecturer in painting and drawing, City Art Institute and College of Fine Arts, UNSW
1981 Visiting Associate Professor, State University of New York, College at Purchase, N.Y
1978-79 Lecturer in painting, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney
1977 Moved to Sydney
1971-76 Lecturer in painting, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne
1970-71 Painting Master, National Gallery School of Art, Melbourne
1971 M/Dip. National Gallery School of Art, Melbourne
1967-70 Lecturer in painting, Prahran College of Advanced Education, Melbourne
1960 Arrived in Australia
1937 Born in Lancashire
   
Recent Solo Shows
Since his first solo show at Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1964, Alun Leach-Jones has exhibited at more than seventy solo shows in various major cities including: Sydney, New York, London, West Berlin, Singapore, Stockholm, New Delhi, Auckland. Recent shows include:
2006 Sculpture, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 Paintings and bronzes, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
   
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Alun Leach-Jones has exhibited in more than100 group exhibitions throughout Australia and internationally.
   
Awards
1987 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
1980 Artist in Residence, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, West Berlin
1980 Visiting Guest Artist, International Cultural Society of Korea, Seoul
   
Select Public Collections
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Australia; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; National Centre of the Performing Arts, Bombay; Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria; Art Gallery of South Australia
   
Bibliography
Goodman, Jonathan ‘Alun Leach-Jones at Luise Ross - New York, New York’ Art in America February 1988
Gray, Robert, Sturgeon, Graeme and Gentle, Christopher, Alun Leach-Jones, Craftsman House in association with G+B Arts International, 1995.
Thomas, David, Alun Leach-Jones: a print retrospective 1966-1994, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1994
Zimmer, Jenny (editor), Catalogue of abstract art in Australia: a selection from the past thirty years, RMIT Gallery, August 1-19, 1983 ; &, Essays on abstract art, RMIT Melbourne. Dept. of Fine Art, 1983
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