Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award 2011
The ten Booktrust Best New Illustrators 2011 were announced at an Award Ceremony at the Illustration Cupboard on 22 March 2011. Chosen by a stellar panel of judges, which included Children's Laureate Anthony Browne and best-selling Charlie and Lola author/illustrator Lauren Child, the winners represent the best rising talent in the field of illustration today, who demonstrate remarkable creative flair, artistic skill and boundless imagination in their work.
The 2011 Booktrust Best New Illustrators are: Joe Berger, Claudia Boldt, Katie Clemison, Chris Haughton, Alice Melvin, Sara Ogilvie, Levi Pinfold, Salvatore Rubbino, Viviane Schwarz and Kevin Waldron. One further illustrator - Susan Steggall - was highly commended by the judges.
An exhibition of work by the ten winning illustrators has been on display at the Illustration Cupboard, The Gallery at Foyles' flagship Charing Cross Road store and the Free Word Centre and will be on tour across the UK throughout 2011 and 2012.
Winners
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Viviane Schwarz
Viviane Schwarz was born in Germany. She studied English at university while writing fantasy stories to practice, then she moved... -
Joe Berger
Joe Berger has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He grew up loving books and the thought... -
Katie Cleminson
Katie Cleminson gained her foundation diploma in Art and Design at Falmouth College. She went on to study Illustration for... -
Kevin Waldron
Kevin Waldron was born in Dublin and, after graduating with a degree in graphic design, he travelled for a year... -
Alice Melvin
Alice Melvin is an illustrator and designer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is inspired by her love of paper,... -
Levi Pinfold
Levi Pinfold was born in the Forest of Dean. His love of stories, painting and the work of illustrators such... -
Claudia Boldt
Claudia Boldt was born in Germany but now lives in London. She attended the Glasgow School of Art, and then... -
Chris Haughton
Chris Haughton is an Irish illustrator living in London. He illustrates regularly for the Guardian and other publications. He has... -
Sara Ogilvie
Sara Ogilvie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne. She studied Illustration and Printmaking at Edinburgh College... -
Salvatore Rubbino
Salvatore Rubbino grew up near the Arsenal Stadium in Highbury in North London, although he says this didn’t make him...
Judges
The judging panel for this year’s Award comprised:
Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne; Director of Literature Strategy at Arts Council England, Antonia Byatt; author/illustrator Lauren Child; founder of the Illustration Cupboard John Huddy and author/illustrator Ken Wilson-Max.
Anthony Browne, Children’s Laureate comments:
Sitting on the panel for the 2011 Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award has been enormously exciting. In the judging meeting colour popped out at us, detail begged to be pored over, wonderful characters bounded through the pages and words and pictures left enough imagination fuelling gaps in meaning to make us want to instantly revisit them! As a panel we were awed by the sheer range of styles and were thrilled to see how both classic and modern approaches are being successfully harnessed to bring children and adults alike some of the most innovative, fresh and skilled illustration being published today. When we had finally reached our decision we were left with a palpable sense that these ten are the illustration stars of the future.
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Anthony BrowneAnthony Browne is an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator of children's books with over forty titles to his name including Gorilla and Willy the Wimp. He was born in Yorkshire and studied graphic arts at Leeds Art College, working as a medical illustrator and an illustrator of greetings cards before his first book was published in 1976. He has gone on to win numerous awards including the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Anthony was the Children's Laureate 2009-2011 and used his time in the post to raise the profile of picture books and picture book illustration, as well as the value of supporting children's creativity and imagination. -
Antonia ByattBefore joining Arts Council England, Antonia was Director of the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University, an academic research library and cultural centre containing the largest collection of women’s history in the UK.
Prior to joining the library, Antonia was head of literature at Southbank Centre, which involved overseeing the literature programme of around 130 events a year and overall management of the poetry library.
She is a governor of the Bishopsgate Institute and since 2008 has been governor of New Buckinghamshire University. -
Lauren ChildAuthor and Illustrator
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John HuddyJohn Huddy first studied art history at school and went on to gain an MA (Hons) in History of Art at St Andrew’s University. John subsequently worked at auctioneers Christies in St James’s, London, where he extended an interest in old master drawings and paintings. However it was his close family connection with publishing that sparked his appreciation of the outstanding range and quality of the books he had grown up with; as a child he had met many leading authors and artists which ultimately led on to founding the Illustration Cupboard in 1995.
Read an interview with John
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Ken Wilson-MaxAuthor and illustrator
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