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Leigh Hobbs Biography
The author and illustrator of such popular, comedic children’s books as Old Tom (1994), Horrible Harriet (2001), Fiona the Pig (2004), and Mr. Badger and the Big Surprise (2010), he is also notable for his work as a painter, printmaker, and ceramics artist.
After studying art at the Caulfield Institute of Technology, he worked as an amusement park artist at Luna Park in Sydney, Australia, and, later, as an art teacher.
His Prime Minister’s Award-nominated children’s book, Mr. Chicken Goes to Paris, was made into a theatrical piece by Australia’s National Institute Of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
He spent his youth in Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia.
He is a contemporary of fellow Australian children’s writer and illustrator Alison Lester.
Leigh Hobbs was born in Williamstown in Victoria, Australia and grew up in the town of Bairnsdale. After graduating from Caulfield Institute of Technology art school (now Monash University) in 1973, he was employed as an artist at Sydney’s Luna Park, an amusement park located adjacent to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. While there he designed the colour scheme for the antique carousel, and created two large three-dimensional characters called Larry and Lizzy Luna, which now reside at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. Between 1978 and 2002 Hobbs supported his artistic career by working as a secondary school art teacher.
In 1980 Hobbs held a one-man show of caricature sculptures at the Rex Irwin Gallery in Sydney. Between 1985 and 2010 he was a freelance contributing cartoonist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Victoria. Since 1999 time a number of major profiles of Hobbs and his work have been published. In 1983 Leigh Hobbs created a series of glazed ceramic tea pots in the shape of Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station. These are in the collection of a number of galleries including the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1999 Hobbs designed the colour scheme for the entrance to Melbourne’s Luna Park in St. Kilda. Between 1998 and 2002 a French/Australian co-produced animated cartoon TV series Old Tom was created based on his Old Tom books, and over 50 episodes were broadcast in Australia on ABC TV. In 2013 Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) adapted Hobbs’ book Mr Chicken Goes To Paris for the stage and the book is a popular title in the Musée du Louvre bookshop in Paris.
Leigh Hobbs’s artwork, paintings, drawings, prints, illustrations and ceramics are to be found in numerous private collections, public art galleries, and institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Libraries of Victoria, and Western Australia. A 1993 photo-portrait by Francis Reiss of Hobbs at work is held in Australia’s National Portrait Gallery.
In 2019 Australia Post featured Leigh and his character Mr Chicken on an ‘Australian Legends of Children’s Literature’ postage stamp
Leigh Hobbs was the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2016 & 2017.
Leigh Hobbs’s children’s books are often described as working on a number of levels and could be seen as gently subversive. For example, Hobbs’s most popular creation, Old Tom, is a grotesque one eyed cat, but the word cat is never used in the books. Old Tom’s ‘owner’ a prim matron like character called Angela Throgmorton thinks of Old Tom as her ‘son’ and the stories revolve around her efforts to socialise this creature who is in fact like a seven-year-old boy trying to break free of a mothers constraints. Hobbs has frequently been shortlisted for the CBCA’s Picture Book of the Year award, his books have won many of the major children’s choice awards in Australia, and in 2010 Old Tom was short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. In Australia his works are published by Allen & Unwin
Leigh Hobbs is an Australian artist and author. He is best known in Australia and the United Kingdom for the humorous children’s books which he has written and illustrated, although he has produced works across a wide range of mediums. His books principally feature the characters Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, Fiona the Pig, Mr Badger and Mr Chicken, and characters from the 4F for FREAKS books. He was the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2016-17.
What's Leigh Hobbs Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Leigh Hobbs Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
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