Victor Bussey has been involved in the visual art world since his youth. He spent his career of near 50 years in the advertising industry having spent much of this time as senior Art Director with agencies such as J Walter Thomson, Lintas and Warnock Stanford Williams in Melbourne and Perth. Victor led national campaigns for Kraft Foods, Volkswagen and the Bond Corporation.

Collaboration has been one aspect of Victor’s success. There is no doubt that his lifetime collaboration with his wife Marjorie was a basis for his ongoing creative practice. Together they explored the visual cultures of Great Britain, Europe and China garnering a rich set of experiences from which he drew in his own creative practice. His own aesthetic however retains a distinctively Australian flavour that characterises the best of his work. One example of this fusion of styles brought him a joint award with Marjorie in 1989 when they received the International Silver Award from the Art Director’s Club for a series of works promoting the insurance company Cameron Walsh.

Since retiring Victor has been pursuing his own painting ideas focusing on the micro and intimate world around him. He takes great delight in his family and their wide creative expression and has contributed in many ways to the creative profile of all his children and to his wide set of friends and colleagues.