Leon Morrocco studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and The Slade and Edinburgh College of Art. In 1968 he won an Italian government scholarship to study at the Accademia di Brera in Milan after which he lectured in drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art from 1965 to 1968, Glasgow School of Art from 1969 to 1979 and then was appointed Head of Fine Art at the Chisholm Institute, Melbourne, in 1977, resigning in 1984 to paint full time. Since his return to the UK in 1991, Morrocco has established an international reputation with successful exhibitions devoted to the Mediterranean, Rome, Havana and India. His paintings are held in notable public and private collections including The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Scottish Arts Council, Leeds City Art Gallery, The Nuffield Foundation and Queensland Art Gallery.
