Bruce Petty

Bruce Petty (1929-2023) was one of Australia’s most celebrated cartoonists. He worked for a number of Australian newspapers including the Daily Mirror, The Australian and The Age. Bruce Petty’s bold ‘scribbles’ were as at home on the screen as on the page. His work in several media was characterised by his depiction of multiple interconnected concepts rather than a single idea. Although best known for his political cartoons in The Age for more than three decades, Petty was an Oscar-winning animated film maker, an etcher, an AFI award-winning documentary maker and a creator of ‘machine sculptures’, one of which was exhibited in the Australian Pavilion at World Expo ‘85.

Works also displayed at Behind the Lines 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.