[ [http://about.theage.com.au/view_profile.asp?intid=854 Bruce Petty Profile] , The Age, accessed 13 September 2008] . He is a regular contributor to Melbourne's "The Age" newspaper. He is married to Australian award-winning novelist, Kate Grenville; they live in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.]His intricate images have been described as "doodle-bombs" for their free-associating of links between various ideas, people and institutions. "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."
Work
Petty began working for the Owen Brothers animation studio in Melbourne in 1949, before leaving in 1955 to work overseas with work being published in "The New Yorker", "Esquire" and "Punch". On his return to Australia, he worked at first for "The Bulletin" and "The Australian" before joining "The Age" in 1976.
In 1976, he won an Oscar for his animated film "Leisure", although he claimed in 2004 that he had no idea of the statue's whereabouts. "When I got it, the Oscar went to the producer. We got a picture of it, a very nice gold-framed picture." ("The Age", June 22, 2004)
He has made a number of other award-winning animated films including "Art", "Australian History", "Hearts and Minds" and "Karl Marx".
Bruce's 2008 book, "Petty's Parallel Worlds", is a retrospective collection of editorial cartoons from 1959 to the present, street sketches done on assignment around the world, and etchings.
Influences
Petty says in the foreword to "Parallel Worlds" that he is a humanist and Socialist, mentions visiting Nicaragua and Cuba in the early 1960s, and feeling the influence of Colin Wilson's "The Outsider".
Filmography
* Hearts and Minds (1968)
* Australian History (1971)
* Art (1974)
* Leisure (1976)
* Magic Arts (1978)
* Karl Marx (1979)
* Megalomedia (1983)
* Movers (1986)
* Money (1998)
* The Mad Century (2000)
* Human Contraptions (2002)[citeweb |url=http://www.afc.gov.au/filmsandawards/filmdbsearch.aspx?view=title&title=HUMACO |title=Searchable Film Database |publisher=Australian Film Commission ] ]
* Global Haywire (2007)Books
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2383207 Australian artist in South East Asia] " / Bruce Petty with introduction by Ronald Searle (1962)
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2064725 Petty's Australia fair] " / Bruce Petty (1967)
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn514624 A portfolio of Petty] " / Bruce Petty (1969)
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn843582 The best of Petty] " / 1968, Ed. Ron Smith
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1909644 The Penguin Petty] " (1972, ISBN 0-14-003639-3)
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1256001 Petty's Australia: and how it works] " / Bruce Petty (1976, ISBN 0-14-070060-9)
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1100899 The Petty age] " / Bruce Petty (1978, ISBN 0-909331-67-7)
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn516376 Petty's money book] " / Bruce Petty (1983, ISBN 0-00-636551-5)
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2181886 Women and men] " / Petty (1986, ISBN 0-04-820029-8)
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn40750 Bruce Petty's the absurd machine] " / Bruce Petty (1997, ISBN 0-14-025554-0)
* " [http://highhorse.com.au/current_releases.html Petty's Parallel Worlds] " Bruce Petty (2008, Ed. Russ Radcliffe, ISBN 978-0-646-49028-1)
References
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn714482 Conversation with Bruce Petty] (1972 sound recording) - interviewer, Hazel de Berg
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2827079 Interview with Bruce Petty, cartoonist and filmmaker] (1996 sound recording) - interviewer, Ann Turner
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an13683140 Portrait of Bruce Petty] (picture) by Virginia Wallace-Crabbe
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1347157/ Bruce Petty (I)] , IMDB
* [http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/1253 Video: Bruce Petty in conversation with fellow cartoonist Bill Leak] on SlowTV
Further reading
* [http://dl.filmaust.com.au/ Bruce Petty on the Film Australia Digital Resource Finder] Explore more about Human Contraptions including Classroom resources
* [http://www.theage.com.au/cartoons/index.html Cartoon page of The Age newspaper]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/26/1088145026420.html Bruce Petty - 27 June 2004 article from "The Age"]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1178313.htm Three Cartoonists] - transcript of Andrew Denton’s ABC interview with cartoonist Bruce Petty, Bill Leak and Patrick Cook
* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/film-reviews/global-haywire/2008/04/10/1207420534414.html Review] of "Global Haywire" in The Sydney Morning Herald
