Bernard Ollis OAM (born 25 April 1951 in Bath, England) is a British-Australian artist, painter and advocate for arts education.

[8] His tutors at the RCA included various internationally acclaimed artists, such as Sir Peter Blake, Howard Hodgkin, R.B.

Ollis received the 1976 John Minton International Painting Prize, the 1977 Sir Frederick Richards’ Travelling Scholarship (UK), an Australia Council Visual Arts Board Grant (1984), and the Conrad Jupiters Award in 2005 (Gold Coast City Art Gallery QLD).

Ollis's work is currently held in public collections in Australia and the United Kingdom, including the Royal College of Art London, National Gallery of Australia, Parliament House, Canberra, and the State Galleries of Queensland, Victoria and Northern Territory.

[13][14][15] He also received a scholarship from the Commonwealth Institute, London, to undertake a residency with the Maltese Studio International as part of the Youth Arts Festival, Malta in 1975.

In the Permanent Collection of:[16] Presently, Ollis works in a large studio warehouse in inner Sydney, and in an apartment/studio in Montmartre, Paris, which he owns with his partner, artist Wendy Sharpe.