Record ID:
35662882 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1953
  • Williamstown, Victoria
Lived/located in:
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Occupations:
  • illustrator
  • artist
  • author
Used for:
  • Hobbs, Leigh, 1953-
Notes:
  • Leigh Hobbs was born in Melbourne and grew up in Bairnsdale. He became interested in art in primary school, and later attended art school. After graduating in Art from Caulfield Institute of Technology, he worked at Sydney's Luna Park restoring the carousel and creating two caricature sculptures 'Larry and Lizzie Luna' (now housed in the Powerhouse Museum). He then began teaching Art in secondary schools while continuing to practice as an artist in a range of different mediums. Apart from becoming a critically acclaimed author and illustrator of children's books, Hobbs has created paintings, ceramics, sculptures and ink work, and he has worked as a freelance cartoonist for the Age. A French/Australian co-production TV series (screened on the ABC) is based on his 'Old Tom' character, the cat that features in several of his best known books. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A0ef
  • b.1953
  • Fish for sale, ©1997 title page (Leigh Hobbs) About the illustrator (artist and cartoonist; lives in Melbourne, Aus.)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 27 September 2013 (life dates, 18 April 1953-) Leigh Hobbs is an Australian artist and author. Although he works across a wide range of mediums, he is best known in Australia and the United Kingdom for the humorous children’s books he has written and illustrated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Hobbs
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)70459
  • 000000666825
  • abv04861896
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc