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Graham Percy was born on 7 June, 1938 in New Zealand, is a New Zealand artist (1938–2008). Discover Graham Percy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Graham Percy Net Worth
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Graham Percy (7 June 1938 – 4 January 2008) was a New Zealand-born artist, designer and illustrator.
His work was the subject of The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy, a major posthumous exhibition of his work which was shown at galleries throughout New Zealand including City Gallery Wellington, Gus Fisher Gallery Auckland, Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui, the Rotorua Museum and the Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill.
Graham Percy was an artist, designer and illustrator.
He was born in Stratford, New Zealand and studied at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland.
After graduating in the early 1960s, Percy worked as an illustrator for the New Zealand School Journal and collaborated with other Auckland-based writers and artists.
He designed the typography for a number of Colin McCahon's exhibition invitations and set up one of New Zealand's first design consultancies with Hamish Keith.
During this period he designed covers for The End of the Golden Weather and The Pohutukawa Tree by Bruce Mason.
In 1964, Percy received a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London.
From late 1964 until the end of his life, he lived and worked in London as an illustrator and artist.
He was the production designer on the 1973 animated film Hugo the Hippo.
While working on the film he met his second wife, the photographer Mari Mahr.
For much of his career, Percy specialised in children's books, illustrating more than 100 works for children.
In later years, he produced a body of his own independent art for adults.
In 1994, Chronicle Books (San Francisco) published a book of his drawings for adults, Arthouse.
In 2007, a further series of his drawings for adults, 'Imagined Histories' was published, supported by the Scottish Arts Council.
Graham Percy died on 4 January 2008.
Books illustrated by Percy for children include the following:
Animated film for children:
The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy was a major posthumous exhibition of Percy's work.
It was developed in partnership between City Gallery Wellington and Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland; it was curated by Gregory O'Brien, leading New Zealand poet, art critic and curator and winner of the 2012 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement.
A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy is an account of Graham Percy's life and art by O'Brien.
It was a finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012 and was highly commended in the Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2012.
A copy of the book was donated by the Chartwell Trust to every high school in New Zealand.
As of October 2013, the itinerary of the exhibition was as follows: