Gabriel Alborozo was born in the UK but grew up in Adelaide and in his twenties lived in Sydney, where he worked in the props department for the Star Wars movies and The Matrix, as well as for a local animation company. Having spent the majority of his career as a cartoonist for magazines such as Private Eye and Punch, he is now writing and illustrating picture books and has published Let's Paint!, The Acrobat and The Colour Thief. He also illustrates books by other authors, such as The Two Tims, written by David Elliott. He currently lives in London but is dusting off his Australian passport.