Alun Leach Jones was born in the U.K. in 1937, of Welsh parentage and spent his childhood in the village of Glasfryn , North Wales . Leach - Jones moved to Australia in 1960 and lives and now works and lives in Sydney .

Since his first one-man exhibition in 1964 he has had over seventy solo exhibitions within Australia as well as shows in Auckland , Kuala Lumpur , New Delhi , Berlin , Swansea , London and New York . He has had seven solo exhibitions in New York since 1983.

Selected public collections in which he is represented include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Australian State Galleries (all); Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; The British Museum, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Glynn Vivan Art Gallery, Swansea; Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Wales; Walker Art Library, Liverpool; National Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; National Performing Arts Centre, Bombay; Parliament House Collection, Canberra; Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand; Perth Cultural Centre, West Australia; Art Bank, Sydney; Many regional art Galleries and university collections throughout Australia. Private collections in the U.S.A. , U.K. , Switzerland , Wales , New Zealand and Australia .

Alun Leach - Jones was elected an Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter - Printmakers, London .

A monograph on Leach - Jones was published by Craftsman House, Sydney in 1988. Revised second edition published 1999. A monograph of drawings was published in 1998.