In 1950 he created a large mural for the concert hall of St Francis' New Australian Centre in Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, depicting the emigration of New Australians from Europe. Illustration shows Bissietta and part of his mural. One mural, the product of seven months' work, depicts the migrants' departure, their sorrowing relatives and their arrival in sunny Queensland. Another includes a likeness of the artist with Archbishop Duhig and Father Boniface, head of the Capuchin order that ran the centre, previously the Caledonian Buildings. Duhig was a nephew of the art critic and pathologist Dr J. V. Duhig.
