Percy Trezise AM (28 January 1923 – 11 May 2005) was an Australian pilot, painter, explorer and writer as well as, notably, a "discoverer", documenter, and historian of Aboriginal rock art.
During World War II, Trezise served in the Royal Australian Air Force, surviving the crash of a Wackett trainer in August 1942.
During the 1960s, he regularly overflew Dunk Island attempting to locate the Aboriginal galleries mentioned by E. J. Banfield in his Confessions of a Beachcomber (1908) and later walked in to find them based on his aerial observations.
[3] Books authored or illustrated by Trezise include: Percy Tresize made a video[4] on his 75th birthday in which he talks about his life and Dick Roughsey.
This is one of the last known video interviews where he discusses the importance of Indigenous Australian culture and how he was drawn to rock art from his early days as a bush pilot with the flying doctor service.