 He was a lecturer and then a senior lecturer in the University of Melbourne's Fine Arts Department (1955–1967).In 1959, he convened a group of seven emerging figurative painters known as the Antipodeans, which organised its only exhibition in August 1959 and with them composed "The Antipodean Manifesto'.Between 1963 and 1966, he worked as an art critic for "The Age" newspaper, Melbourne.