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BIOGRAPHY Aaron Blabey

Aaron Blabey is an Australian author and illustrator of children's books. He was previously an actor winning awards for his roles in television dramas in the 1990s. He began painting in the mid-2000s and held solo art exhibitions. In 2006, he began writing and illustrating children's picture books including Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley which won awards. He has since written several other award winning books and works as a lecturer while continuing his career as an author and illustrator.

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BIOGRAPHY Aaron Blabey

Aaron Blabey is an Australian author and illustrator of children's books. He was previously an actor winning awards for his roles in television dramas in the 1990s. He began painting in the mid-2000s and held solo art exhibitions. In 2006, he began writing and illustrating children's picture books including Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley which won awards. He has since written several other award winning books and works as a lecturer while continuing his career as an author and illustrator.

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Aaron Blabey

Aaron Blabey (born 1974), an Australian author of children's books and artist who
until the mid 2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley and The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon. In the
field of acting, he is probably best known for his lead roles in two television
dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an
Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from
performance in 2005.

In 2012, he is the National Literacy Ambassador.[2]

Personal

Blabey is from Bendigo, Australia.

He is married to the actress Kirstie Hutton, and the couple have two sons.[3]

CAREER

Acting

Blabey appeared in various television and film roles throughout the 1990s and
2000s and took part in several theatrical productions.[4]

Besides his 1994 award for acting in a lead role, the Australian Film Institute also
nominated him in 2000 for his guest-starring role in the series Stingers.

Art

From the mid-2000s, Blabey turned his attention away from acting towards painting
and created six separate solo exhibitions across Australia between 2004 and 2006.
[5]

Children's books

Then in 2006, Blabey turned his focus entirely to the creation of children’s picture
books. The first of these, Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, was published in July
2007. In 2008, the book received a Children's Book Council of Australia Award in
the council's Early Childhood category.[6] The book was also shortlisted for the
CBCA's Crichton Award (given to new illustrators), The NSW Premier’s Literature
Awards – The Patricia Wrightson Award, and the Children’s Peace Literature Prize.
In 2008, the book was also included on the Notable Book list from the Smithsonian
Institution.[7]

His second book, Sunday Chutney, was published in 2008 and shortlisted for the
CBCA Picture Book of the Year 2009.[8] and the Australian Book Industry Awards
2009.

His third book, Stanley Paste, was a CBCA Notable Book in the Picture Book
category in 2010 [9] as was The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon in 2012, which was
also selected as a prestigious White Raven of 2012 by the International Youth
Library in Munich, Germany.

His fifth book, The Dreadful Fluff is due for release in November 2012.

Art direction

Blabey has also worked in art direction and has been a staff writer at a major
advertising agency. He currently lectures at a prominent Sydney design college.

Honors and awards

 1994, Australian Film Institute Award, Best Actor in a Leading Role in a


Television Drama, The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, episode: "Spay Misty
For Me."
 2008, Children's Book Council of Australia Award, Early Childhood category,
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley.
 2012, White Ravens Award by the International Youth Library, The Ghost of
Miss Annabel Spoon.
 2012, National Literacy Ambassador.

Author & Illustrator

 Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, Melbourne: Puffin, 2007.


 Sunday Chutney, Melbourne: Viking Australia, 2008.
 Stanley Paste, Melbourne: Viking Australia, 2009.
 The Ghost Of Miss Annabel Spoon, Melbourne: Viking Australia, 2011.

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