Painter, printmaker and teacher, born and lived in London, son of Sir Israel Gollancz and cousin of the publisher Victor Gollancz. He became senior lecturer in the history and theory of art at Sir John Cass School of Art, taught for the Open University, University of London Extra-Mural Department and for Syracuse University London Centre. As a part-time mature student Gollancz studied with Cecil Collins and Hans Tisdall at Central School of Art & Design. He described himself as “committed to working in oil on canvas … to revitalise painting as a significant form of contemporary art”. His Colourist work was “increasingly non-figurative in interpretation of visual and emotional experience”. Gollancz took part in group shows at Camden Arts Centre and in France, where he had a second home in the Cevennes.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)