Craig Gough was an art critic for the Sunday Times newspaper, before moving to Melbourne in 1974 to take up a lectureship in fine art at Caulfield Institute of Technology, (now part of Monash University). Before leaving the university to paint full time in 1994, he had been appointed as senior lecturer in painting and head of fine art.

He has travelled widely from the time of the Visual Arts Board award of a three month studio residency at ‘il Paretaio’, the Arthur Boyd studio in Tuscany, Italy. Major travels, visiting art galleries in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Britain, Greece, Japan and across USA, have given inspiration and knowledge.

He has had more than fifty solo exhibitions in Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Canberra and many more group showings and commissions.

His works have been acquired by important gallery, corporate and private collectors, including the National Gallery of Victoria, and regional galleries of Ballarat, Bayside, Bendigo, Bunbury, Castlemaine, Fremantle, Gold Coast, Glasshouse- Port Macquarie, Heide, La Trobe Valley, Maitland, Maroondah, McClelland, Mornington, Newcastle and Warrnambool.

The University of WA, and other universities in WA, (Curtin, Edith Cowan and Murdoch) and Deakin. LaTrobe, Monash and Melbourne University in Victoria.

Hospitals that have works are, Royal Perth and Sir Charles Gairdner (WA) Southern Health Victoria (Monash Medical Centre and Casey) and St John of God Ballarat.

Major art awards, prizes and commissions for paintings, drawings and prints include The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize (acquisitive for painting, for the National Gallery of Victoria), the Hugh Williamson bequest for a painting of Melbourne for the National Gallery of Victoria, a commissioned painting on a Melbourne tram (Melb.Tramways Board), and various portrait commissions, both corporate and private.

Other major collections where his work can be found are the city councils of Box Hill, Kyneton, Sandringham and St. Kilda. The Victorian Ministry of the Arts, Artbank, the Australian Embassy in Saudi Arabia, Bank West (W.A.), Hong Kong Bank, plus numerous corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas.