Maude Edith Victoria Fleay

Maude Edith Victoria Glover Fleay (1869–1965), was one of Australia's first wildlife artists. She was known for her paintings of Australian marsupials.

Biography Fleay was born in 1869 in Sulky Gully, Australia. She studied drawing at the School of Mines, Ballarat, where she was taught by David Davies.

She exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and she was a member of the Victorian Artists Society. Glover Fleay exhibited at the Leighton Galleries in 1945 where her work was commended for its "rather unfeminine strength and confidence of approach." Noted artist Arthur Streeton said her paintings "reflect great sympathy with and knowledge of the animals." She was also a writer and music teacher, and art director of the Daylesford School of Mines.

In 1905 she married William Henry Fleay at St. Peter's Church of England, Sturt Street, Ballarat.

Fleay died on 18 May 1965 in Colac. Her works "Gum trees", "End of day", and "Consider the lilies" are in the Gallery's collection. An exhibition showcasing her work, The Fabulous Maude, showed at The Lost Ones Contemporary Art Gallery in Ballarat in 2018.