In his teaching career, Robinson eventually became head of the Painting Department at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education in 1982.
He rose to international prominence as a part of the exhibitions Australian Perspecta in 1983 and The Sixth Bienniale of Sydney in 1986.
Robinson released a solo exhibition, Landscapes, which consisted of oil paintings showing fragments of the Australian bush in various perspectives.
In 2011, The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Art Museum curated a major retrospective exhibition William Robinson: The Transfigured Landscape which was opened by the Australian Governor General Quentin Bryce.
[4] In 2016 William Robinson was interviewed in a digital story and oral history for State Library of Queensland's James C Sourris AM Collection.