Petty the biography australian news

Bruce Petty was best-known for his political cartoons, which he produced over a year career in Australia and abroad. Supplied: Fairfax Media. Australian cartoonist, filmmaker and satirist Bruce Petty has died at the age of In a statement, his family said Petty died peacefully on Thursday morning. Born in Melbourne's north-east suburb of Doncaster inPetty began his art career at an animation studio in Box Hill in He travelled overseas where his work was published in magazines such as The New Yorker and Esquire, before returning to Australia to establish himself as a prominent political cartoonist.

Bruce Petty employed his trademark scribble-style drawings to tackle the political and economic news of the day. Supplied: Bruce Petty. Petty was a cartoonist for The Age and The Australian, known for his sharp satire of Australian and world politics with artwork peeling back the curtain on the machinery of politics. Age journalist Martin Flanagan wrote that Petty "re-invented the world as a vast scribbly machine with interlocking cogs and levers that connected people in wholly logical but unlikely ways.

Petty began working for the Owen Brothers animation studio in Melbourne inbefore moving to the UK in Inthe animated film Leisureof which he was the director, won an Academy Award for the producer Suzanne Baker the first Australian woman to win an Oscar. We got a picture of it, a very nice gold-framed picture. Petty also created a number of "machine sculptures" with the most famous being a piece known as "Man Environment Machine" fondly known as the "Petty Machine" that was a feature piece of the Australian Pavilion at World Expo '85 at Tsukuba, Japan.

Petty the biography australian news

Inhe received the AFI Best Documentary Director prize for the documentary Global Haywire which he wrote, directed and animated, as well as the Best Documentary Sound prize ; this documentary tries to unravel the global pattern that leads to an understanding of how the world came to be as it is today, and is based on interviews with intellectuals, students and journalists.

Petty's book, Petty's Parallel Worldsis a retrospective collection of editorial cartoons from to the present, street sketches done on assignment around the world, and etchings. Those of Petty's cartoons that depict themes such as the economy, international relations or other social issues as complicated interlocking machines that manipulate, or are manipulated by, people have been likened to Rube Goldberg machines or Heath Robinson contraptions.

Petty said in the foreword to Parallel Worlds that he was a humanist and socialist, mentioning visits to Nicaragua and Cuba in the early s, and feeling the influence of Colin Wilson 's The Outsider. They had two sons. In he married award-winning author Kate Grenvillewith whom he had a son and a daughter. Petty died on 6 Aprilat the age of Contents move to sidebar hide.

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