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Selected reviews
Above: Favourite Things, by Deborah Cooke for Sydney Morning Herald, Good Living Weekend Supplement in 2008. Pictures Ollis with his signature round glasses (several pairs), a Mexican day of the dead figure and his old teddy bear.
2015 Fletcher, Diana, 'Painting for Antarctica' The Australian National Maritime Museum, magazine Signals 110 March-May 2015 pp 43-45 (PDF 540kb click here)
2006 McDonald, John, Australian Art Collector
2005 Hill, Peter, Line Honours, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September
2004 Verghis, Sharon, Art teacher draws a line at new skills, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 June
1998 Morgan, Joyce, New Era as Disharmony goes by the Board, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 February
1995 The Power of Ten, Herald Sun, April
1993 Borough Galleries, Seven Regional Artists, August
1993 Pollard, Pat, The Body Swap Shop, The Western Times, August
1992 Fern, Lynette, Sculptural Tensions, The Sydney Morning Herald, February
1991 Image: The Body Swap Shop, Bathurst Regional Gallery
1991 Robert, Rooney, No Rest for the Wicked, Weekend Australian, February
1990 Chanin, Eileen, Inside World, Macquarie Gallery Bulletin
1989 Farrel, Katrina, Jumping in the Deep End, Australian Arts
1988 Catalano, Gary, A Review of the Year in the Galleries, The Age, December
1988 Chanin, Eileen, New Art 11, Macquarie Gallery Bulletin
1988 Catalano, Gary, Fantasy Moves Out of the Fairground, The Age, 17 February
1988 Constantine, Fran, 9 x 5 x Mail The Centre Gallery, Queensland
1986 Malcolm, Terrance, How to Handle Child?s Play, Sydney Morning Herald, February
1986 Black, Sharyn, Ollis Rocking the Boat, BCAE Student Magazine
1985 Catalano, Gary, Australian Ugliness as seen by English Eyes, The Age, June
1985 Chanin, Eileen, and Ollis, Bernard, Constructivism, Macquarie Galleries Bulletin
1984 Tobias, Jill, Bendigo Artist's Work Home to Roost, Bendigo Advertiser, September
1984 McGrath, Sandra, Place Conveyed as State of Mind, The Weekend Australian, 18 February
1984 The Bulletin, 24 July
1984 Wolseley, John, Bonjour Monsieur Ollis, Macquarie Gallery, Bulletin
1983 Artworks go on Show, Mildura Paper
1983 Art is Vibrant and Colourful, Mildura Paper
1983 Art on Show, Mildura Paper
1983 At the Gallery, The News, Shepparton, 15 September
1981 Borlase, Nancy, It all there the Beer, the View and the Colour, Sydney Morning Herald
1981 A Month in Review, National Times, August
1981 Lynn, Elwyn, Sydney Galleries, Weekend Australian, 1 August
1981 McLachlan, Tim, Sydney, National Times Review, March
1978 Makin, Jeff, An Englishman with a Darwin Connection, The Sun, 28 June
1978 McCulloch, Alan, Surviving the Shock of Ockerdom, Herald, May
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Catalogues and Books
Above: Published in 2021 - 'Darwin Daze'. This amusing set of memoirs is contains 26 photographs, paintings and oil pastel works, many in full colour. In addition Bernard has produced 23 pen and ink drawings specifically for this book.
2021 Ollis, Bernard, Darwin Daze, Martin Lane Design, NSW, ebook link
2020 Ollis, Bernard, The Artist's Garden, Self-published, hardcover
2014 Le regard de deux Australiens, L’Espace Beaujon, Paris, NSW
2014 Traveller’s Tales, Tweed River Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 A Town Like Paris, Muk Muk Fine Art, publication to coincide with travelling exhibition
2012 Modern Living: Bernard Ollis, A Survey of the Work of Bernard Ollis, Manly Art Museum, Sydney, NSW
2006 McCulloch, Alan, McCulloch's Encycopedia of Australian Art, (4th edition) Aus Art Editions/The Miegunyah Press Victoria ISBN 0 522 85317 X
2006 Ollis, Bernard, The St Peters Suite, ISBN 0 646 46173 7
2005 Li,Jingzhe, Australian Contemporary Painting Shanghai Peoples Fine Art Publishing House
1997 Paterson, Susan, From Bendigo to Bath, Hot Bath Gallery, Bath, UK
1996 Paterson, S. and Gervasoni, C. Catbuster Studio Art, Macmillan, VIC
1995 Who?s Who of Australian Visual Arts (2nd edition) Reed International Publishing
1995 Gervasoni, Clare, and Paterson, Susan, Catbuster Art, Macmillan, Melbourne, VIC
1994 McCulloch, Susan, The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen and Unwin, Melbourne, VIC
1993 Hayes, Susan, and Gervasoni, Clare, Artistic Insights, Harcourt Brace Jovanonvich, Sydney, NSW
1992 Drury, Neville, Images in Contemporary Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW
1991 Chanin, Eileen, ed Contemporary Australian Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW
1990 Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW
1988 Drury, Neville, New Directions in Contemporary Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW
1984 Bendigo Art Gallery Bernard Ollis Australian Works, National Touring catalogue, VIC
1983 Paroissien, Leon, Australian Art Review, Warner Assoc. Press
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Contributions to Books, Journals and Magazines by Bernard Ollis
2008 Ollis, Bernard, quoted in The Struggle to Keep Faith in the Blake Prize, Quadrant (March 2008)
2007 Ollis, Bernard, Foreword 56th Blake Prize for Religious Art catalogue
2005 Ollis, Bernard, the Band Returning 2005 full page colour image appearing on the front cover of Antiques & Art in Queensland November 2005 March 2006 edition
2005 Ollis, Bernard, Foreword 'Walking the Line' National Art School Academic Staff Drawing Exhibition Catalogue
2002 Ollis, Bernard, Foreword National Art School Prospectus
2001 Ollis, Bernard, Foreword The Studio Tradition
1999 Ollis, Bernard, Craft Arts International - Art Schools in Australia
1998 - 2002 Ollis, Bernard, Foreword National Art School Degree Show Yearbook
1998 Ollis, Bernard, History of the National Art School, NAS website
1992 Ollis, Bernard, in Hayes, Susan, Flora and Fauna, La Trobe University
1983 Ollis, Bernard, An Artists view from Darwin, Australian Art Review Chapter on Northern Territory. Ed Paroissien, Leon, Macmillan Press
1980 Ollis, Bernard, catalogue preface introduction to David Middlebrook American Artist in Residence, Chandler Coventry Gallery
1980 Ollis, Bernard, Peter Colett, in Scarlett Ken Australian Sculptors, Nelson, Melbourne
1976 Ollis, Bernard, chapter in Picard Phyllis If You think Your Child is Gifted, Allen and Unwin, London
1975 Ollis, Bernard, Malta seminars become Carnivals Commonwealth News 4 June 75, Volume
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Academic Participation in Seminars, Symposia and Conferences
2008 State Library of NSW, Examined Life Series III – The Search for Meaning – Guest Speaker
2007 Invited speaker for NAS, International independent art schools association. Evora, Portugal
2007 Forty Eight Hours of Visual Art (FEHVA) Conference, Bangalow NSW – Guest Speaker
2006 ‘Drawing Breath’ International Drawing Symposium National Art School Campus, NSW – Convenor