Graham Percy
Biography
Though based in London for the majority of his adult life, Percy was born in Stratford, Taranaki and studied at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland. After graduating in the early 1960s, Percy worked as an illustrator for the New Zealand School Journal and collaborated with other Auckland-based writers and artists. He designed the typography for a number of Colin McCahon’s exhibition invitations and set up one of New Zealand’s first design consultancies with Hamish Keith. In 1964, Percy received a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London, where he lived and worked as a successful illustrator and artist until he passed away in 2008.
Accessed 7 August 2012 from City Gallery Wellington website (media release for exhibition The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy)
http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibition/the-imaginative-life-and-times-of-graham-percy
Accessed 7 August 2012 from City Gallery Wellington website (media release for exhibition The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy)
http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibition/the-imaginative-life-and-times-of-graham-percy
b.1938, d.2008
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