GARRY FLEMING
“Garry Fleming is without doubt Australia’s foremost wildlife artist. I marvel at his talent. Just last weekend I looked at one of his paintings at the Morpeth gallery in the Hunter Valley. Looking directly in front of the painting I felt like I could touch the galahs and the fence in front of them. Then from across the room there was depth and perspective rarely achieved. He’s brilliant. “ Ray Hadley OAM
Garry Fleming is a wildlife artist, author, and illustrator with 137 titles published in more than 56 languages, making him one of the world’s most published wildlife artists. He has won several awards for his work, including the Royal Agricultural Society’s Birds and Wildlife Award, the Wilderness Award for Book Illustration, the Australasian Zoological Award 2000, and the Highly Commended Wildlife Art Society of Australasia Award.
Bollygum was one of Garry’s first works to be published and remains an Australian classic.
‘We were all under 30 at Weldon Kids and having a ball creating children’s product. Garry came in the office one day to show me his portfolio, a self-taught, unpublished artist in his 20’s knocking on doors trying to get a break. He walked out of my office with a contract to illustrate The Big Book of Wild Australia, that title sold 65,000 copies in 3 months. From that moment on Garry became an integral part of the team and contributed greatly to our success. I knew Bollygum was special as soon as I read the first draft’ Leonie Weldon, Publisher.
AWARDS:
*Wilderness Award x 2, Whitley Award, Zoological Award, Ras Birds And Wildflowers Award x 3
WORKS TO DATE
1990-95 – Published by Weldon Kids Pty Ltd
Written And Illustrated:
Spinoffs:
Bollygum. 1995, reprinted 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008.
reprinted by Scholastic Australia 2013
Sold Australia 125,000+
Written:
1995-96 HBJ Publishers Sales 50,000
Illustrated:
1996-98 Hodder And Stoughton Sales 90,000
Written And Illustrated:
Illustrated:
1996-97 Random House Sales 800,000
1998-2009 The Five Mile Press
Sales- Books 1.6 Million Units
Related Product. 500,000 Units
Australia and North America
Written And Illustrated:
Jigsaw Books:
Activity Packs:
Illustrated:
Jigsaw Books:
Poster Packs:
The Echidna Club
2008-2009 Brimax Sales 30,000 Units
2002-2008 Brolly Books Sales 90,000 Units
2008-2009 Hinkler Books Sales 100,000+
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