Binney's tutors included Ida Eisa, James Turkington, Robert Ellis and Robin Wood.
In 1963, he held his first solo exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Auckland and began teaching at Mount Roskill Grammar School, where he taught until 1966.
[2] In 1962, Binney began painting at Te Henga, and views of Puketotara with indigenous birds became a common motif in his artworks.
[3] Binney died of a heart attack while in hospital in Auckland[7] for an unrelated illness on 14 September 2012, at the age of 72, and was survived by his second wife Philippa and daughter Mary.
Binney has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and was the subject of a thirty-year survey show at the Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga in 1989.