News Item 2002

Bliss Exhibition Opens in Art Gallery

Bond University lecturer, Graham Bliss, has a pedigree most artists would kill for.

His great, great, great grandfather was an infamous forger who was deported to Australia in 1807 after he was caught producing his own Bank of England banknotes.

Back in those days, the banknotes, were simply hand-written in ink, but only official bank officials were allowed to draw them.

Graham’s two brothers are also commercial illustrators, his father is a wood sculptor and his grandfather was a watercolor artist renowned for his paintings of the British Naval Fleet during World War II.

Graham has now devleoped his own innovative style by combining traditional painting techniques with modern computer technology and he has proved a hit with advertising agencies, publishers and design companies throughout Australia.

His illustrations have been reproduced in books, magazines, on stationary, posters and billboards, on clothing, gaming cards and a wide range of merchadising items and his clients have included Castlemaine Brewery, the RACQ, the Treasury Casino and Dreamworld.

On Wednesday (July 10) he will open his latest exhibition, simply titled Bliss, at the Bond University art gallery.

The exhibition will include a diverse selection of past illustrations, recent paintings and a series of fantasy portraits that are seemingly traditonal but with a slight twist.

The exhibition will continue until August 26 and the Bond Art Gallery is open from 9.30am until 4.30pm daily.

Further information from Phil Teese, Bond University Corporate Communications. Tel (07) 5595 1613. Mobile 0412 964 003

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