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Greg Bridges    
   
Gregory Bridges was born in 1951 in Melbourne, spending his early childhood in a house built and designed by his father in country suburb of Melbourne. His father Ronald was an Optometrist and Mechanical Engineer, his mother worked in photography, teaching Photographic colouring at Swinbourne University. Greg’s mother encouraged his creative ability, which was apparent at an early age.

The family moved to Sydney when Greg was 12 years old, when his father accepted a position as General Manager of a large Aluminium company. At this time he created his first Futuristic work, which was selected to be sent to The British Isles as examples of Australian Children’s work.

In 1962 he was gaining an interest in Science Fiction, being inspired by the background cities and designs from movies like Forbidden Planet. There were also books the family had that he was fascinated with including many works by HG Wells and Robert Louis Stevensons work. In the movies he loved the design of the cities these held a special fascination for him. Like the city in The Wizard of OZ, The ships in HG Wells War of the Worlds and the design of the steel submarine in contrast to the old wooden ships in Jules Vern's 2000 Leagues Under the Sea.
  In 1965 at the age of 14 in art class at High School he was introduced to the work of Salvador Dali by way of Dali’s painting ‘The Burning Giraffe’. This painting opened the door to his interest in Surrealism. Drawing on inspiration from this work Greg captured those colours in his own art at the same time and surprised the art teachers with an experiment of combining futuristic images like HG Wells War of the worlds and robotic buildings in a 4’x3’ acrylic work This was to set the direction Greg would explore. By 1968 he had achieved marks in Art that placed him in the top ten students in the state setting the stage for his future career.
In 1969 he went to college and studied art for the introductory year of the Arts Diploma. After this he set out to combine the work of fine art, surreal art and Sci-fi art into his now unique art form. His vision was to create science fiction art as fine art.

Greg's most known work has a very distinctive style with exquisite detail.

The artwork on this website is currently an eclectic selection from early to 2004 works.
  All designs and art are Copyright© and owned by Greg Bridges. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited.