Bernard Ollis
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Bernard Ollis is the former Director of the National Art School, Sydney. Born in Bath,[1] England, Ollis is a graduate of Cardiff College of Art and Design, Wales and received his Master of Art (Painting) from the Royal College of Art, London. He arrived in Australia in 1976 and lectured at the University Northern Territory (now Charles Darwin University) where he became head of dept and La Trobe University, Victoria (where he became Head of Fine Art) before being appointed Head of Painting at the National Art School in 1996. He became Director in late 1997 a position he held for 10 years.
Bernard Ollis has held close to 50 solo exhibitions since 1972 in Australia, New Zealand, and London and has participated in group exhibitions throughout Australia, Europe, and Asia.[2] Ollis undertook a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris in 1975 and in 2008 he underwent a Residency as the guest of the Australian Ambassador to Egypt,Dr Bob Bowker. Subsequent residencies include one with Obracadobra artist residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, with Mawson's Hut Foundation to Antarctica in 2014, and an international artist residency at Funxing-Ginger Art Space, Zhouzhuang, Jiangsu, China in 2015. Ollis has been awarded numerous art prizes and awards such as the 1976 John Minton International Painting Prize, the 1977 Sir Frederick Richards’ Travelling Scholarship (UK), an Australia Council Visual Arts Board Grant (1984), and the Conrad Jupiters Award in 2005 (Gold Coast City Art Gallery QLD).
Ollis's work is currently held in public collections in Australia and the United Kingdom, including the Royal College of Art London, National Gallery of Australia, Parliament House Canberra, and the State Galleries of Queensland, Victoria and Northern Territory.
In the Permanent Collection of:[3]
- Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
- The Royal College of Art London, UK
- Parliament House, Canberra
- The Commonwealth Institute, London, UK
- Art Bank, Sydney
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Victoria
- La Trobe University, Melbourne
- Darwin University, Northern Territory
- McGregor Collection University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
- Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise Queensland
- Herald Sun Art Collection, Melbourne
- Bathurst Arts Centre, Bathurst
- New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
- Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
- Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton
- Ballarat Art Gallery and Museum, Ballarat
- Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
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References
- ^ Fortescue, Elizabeth (21 March 2011). "Going back to future". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
BERNARD Ollis likes to say he went to Paris an art student and came back an artist. The year was 1974 and Ollis, born on a council estate in the UK city of Bath, had won a scholarship while studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where his teachers included David Hockney
- ^ Burratti, Robert (2013). The Streets of Paris. Perth: Burratti Fine Art.
- ^ Buratti, Robert (2012). The Art of Bernard Ollis. Perth: Buratti Fine Art. pp. 73–74.