Colin Lanceley: Earthly Delights Opening Night

Susan Rothwell, Chair, National Art School Board of Directors

Steven Alderton, Director and CEO, National Art School

warmly invite you and your guest to the Opening Night of 

Colin Lanceley: Earthly Delights

Opened by Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO, businesswoman and former Sydney lord mayor

Entry via Burton Street 

6:00pm for 6:15pm – Cell Block Theatre 

6:20pm – Opening speeches in the Cell Block Theatre 

Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO and Steven Alderton, NAS Director and CEO 

7:00pm – Exhibition opens

Colin Lanceley: Earthly Delights is a new major exhibition celebrating NAS alumnus, teacher and leader Colin Lanceley (1938 – 2015), a modernist trailblazer who believed in celebrating the joyous qualities of life in his vibrant, three-dimensional art.

When Colin first arrived at the National Art School as a student in the 1950s, against the wishes of his family, he described it as ​“the opening of my life”. Colin lived overseas in the 1960s and 70s, developing his vigorous and adventurous practice. In the 1980s Colin returned to Australia and began teaching at NAS, then in the 1990s, as Chairman of the Advisory Board, helped write a new chapter for the School as an independent tertiary institution, ensuring teachers and lecturers were accomplished practicing artists themselves.

Curated by Sioux Garside and supported by his wife Kay, this exhibition is a celebration of Colin’s life and work, confirming his creative legacy in the same year the National Art School celebrates 100 years of teaching art at the heritage-listed former Darlinghurst Gaol.

Please advise us at marketing@​nas.​edu.​au if you have special needs regarding access.

Colin Lanceley, Chablis (detail) 1980 – 81, oil, mixed media and wood on canvas, 143 x 220 x 18 cm, TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. Gift of Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AO. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2008. Image © the Lanceley estate administered by The Copyright Agency, Sydney