Early Life
Gleeson was born in the Sydney district of Hornsby and he attended East Sydney Technical College. As a young man, he was attracted to work of the likes of Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst. In 1938 he studied at Sydney Teachers College, where he gained two years training in general primary school teaching. He also joined the Sydney Branch of the assertively experimental Contemporary Art Society. At this time Gleeson became interested in the writings of psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, which would become major intellectual influences for his art.
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