They staged exhibitions in Sydney's Rudy Komon Gallery and John Reed's Museum of Modern Art and Design in Melbourne.
Andrew Sayers, former head of Australia's National Portrait Gallery, described their work as "chaotic, exuberant, and profuse—collaborative collages consisting of junk and plastic objects, doodle-like drawings, and paintings celebrating a bizarre cast of characters.
"[1] According to Lanceley, Imitation Realism was largely a reaction against what the members perceived as the "conservatism and lack of guts" of the Sydney art world.
Mike Brown noted that at different times their work was called "modern reliquary, satirical goonery, and inspired or uninspired doodling,....
Lanceley's 1961 work Glad Family Picnic is considered a masterpiece of the movement[2] and is deemed a collection highlight at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.