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Bernard Ollis is the former Director of the National Art School, Sydney. Born in Bath, 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.
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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. 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.
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