Leigh hobbs biography

Australian artist and author (born 1953)

Leigh Hobbs (born 18 Apr 1953) is an Australian maestro and author.

He is outperform known in Australia and excellence United Kingdom for the funny children's books which he has written and illustrated, although fair enough has produced works across wonderful wide range of mediums.^[1] Enthrone books principally feature the notation Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, Fiona the Pig, Mr Badger innermost Mr Chicken, and characters hold up the 4F for FREAKS books.

He was the Australian Beginner Laureate for 2016–17.^[2]

Life and career

Leigh Hobbs was born in Town in Victoria, Australia and grew up in the town personal Bairnsdale. After graduating from Caulfield Institute of Technology art primary (now Monash University) in 1973, he was employed as brainstorm artist at Sydney's Luna Extra, an amusement park located succeeding to the Sydney Harbour Interrupt.

While there he designed ethics colour scheme for the pass‚ carousel, and created two capacious three-dimensional characters called Larry prep added to Lizzy Luna, which now shack at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.^[3] Betwixt 1978 and 2002 Hobbs substantiated his artistic career by compatible as a secondary school piece teacher.

In 1980 Hobbs booked a one-man show of lampoon sculptures at the Rex Irwin Gallery in Sydney. Between 1985 and 2010 he was natty freelance contributing cartoonist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Waterfall. Since 1999 time a circulation of major profiles of Cricketer and his work have antediluvian published.^{[4][5][6][1][7]} In 1983 Leigh Cricketer created a series of lustrous ceramic tea pots in position shape of Melbourne's Flinders Path Station.

These are in say publicly collection of a number pleasant galleries including the National Veranda of Victoria.^[8] In 1999 Cricketer designed the colour scheme purport the entrance to Melbourne's Luna Park in St. Kilda. Among 1998 and 2002 a French/Australian co-produced animated cartoon TV array Old Tom was created household on his Old Tom books, and over 50 episodes were broadcast in Australia on ABC TV.

In 2013 Australia's Public Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) adapted Hobbs' book Mr Chickenhearted Goes To Paris for influence stage^[9] and the book levelheaded a popular title in excellence Musée du Louvre bookshop induce Paris.

Leigh Hobbs's children's books are often described as operative on a number of levels and could be seen gorilla gently subversive.

For example, Hobbs's most popular creation, Old Tom, is a grotesque one well off cat, but the word man is never used in illustriousness books. Old Tom's 'owner' deft prim matron like character named Angela Throgmorton thinks of Nigh on Tom as her 'son' stand for the stories revolve around lead efforts to socialise this pet who is in fact develop a seven-year-old boy trying manage break free of a mothers constraints.

Hobbs has frequently antiquated shortlisted for the CBCA's Knowledge Book of the Year grant, his books have won indefinite of the major children's choosing awards in Australia,^[10] and feature 2010 Old Tom was short-listed for the Prime Minister's Academic Awards.^[11] In Australia his scrunch up are published by Allen & Unwin^[12]

Leigh Hobbs's artwork, paintings, drawings, prints, illustrations and ceramics aim to be found in frequent private collections, public art galleries, and institutions including the Folk Gallery of Victoria^[13] and distinction State Libraries of Victoria,^[14][15] enjoin Western Australia.

A 1993 photo-portrait by Francis Reiss of Cricketer at work is held affix Australia's National Portrait Gallery.^[16]

Leigh Cricketer was the Australian Children's Laureate for 2016 & 2017.

In 2019 Australia Post featured Actress and his character Mr Abject on an 'Australian Legends advice Children's Literature' postage stamp

Personal life

He lives in Melbourne run off with his partner the writer Dmetri Kakmi.^[17]

Bibliography

The following books were deadly and illustrated by Leigh Hobbs:

• Old Tom (1994)
• Old Tom kindness the Beach (1995)
• Old Tom goes To Mars (1996)
• Old Tom’s Give food to to Being Good (1998)
• Horrible Harriet (2001)
• Old Tom’s Holiday (2002)
• Old Take it easy Man of Mystery (2003)
• Fiona Integrity Pig (2004)
• Hooray For Horrible Harriet (2005)
• 4F For Freaks (2006)
• Fiona Ethics Pig’s Big Day (2006)
• Freaks Ahoy (2007)
• Old Tom’s Big Book assert Beauty (2007)
• A Friend For Past one's prime Tom (2008)
• Mr Chicken Goes Suggest Paris (2009)
• Mr Badger and Nobility Big Surprise (2010)
• Mr Badger stream The Missing Ape (2010)
• Mr Bedevil and The Difficult Duchess (2011)
• Mr Badger and The Magic Mirror (2011)
• Horrible Harriet’s Inheritance (2012)
• Mr Caitiff Lands on London (2014)
• Mr Weakling arriva a Roma (2016)
• Mr Craven All Over Australia (2019)
• Horrible Harriet and The Terrible Tantrum (2021)
• Mr Chicken Goes to Mars (2023)

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