Top 10: V&A Illustration Awards
We select some of our favorite entries from this year’s shortlist and winners
One of the UK’s most prestigious illustration competitions, the V&A Illustration Awards were established in 1972 and celebrate art across four categories: Student Illustration, Book Cover Design, Book Illustration, and Illustrated Journalism. To celebrate this year's competition, we have selected some of our favorite entries from the 2020 shortlist.
Open to UK residents, those who have had work published in titles within the UK market, or who are attending university in the UK, the competition takes place annually and is free to enter, generously supported by the Enid Linder Foundation and the Moira Gemmill Memorial fund. Each winner receives £3,000, and the overall winner of the competition is awarded the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize of an additional £5,000. The student runner-up receives £2,000. Given the level of talent and the number of entries, just to be shortlisted is a huge achievement.
Here are some of our favorite entries from this year’s shortlist. You can see the shortlist and winners in full here.
2020 Winners
Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year: Ann Kiernan
Ann Kiernan won this prize with this piece called Twitter Jail, an illustration for the writtten piece 'How Twitter is gagging Arabic users and acting as morality police' by Wael Eskandar.
Book Cover Award: Eva Eland
Book cover illustration by Eva Eland, for When Sadness Comes to Call by Eva Eland. Publisher: Andersen Press. Art direction by Rebecca Garrill.
Book Illustration Award: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Book illustration by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes by Simon Armitage. Publisher: Design for Today. Art direction by Laurence Beck.
Student Illustrator of the Year: Sally Dunne
Home in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, illustration by Sally Dunne. Anglia Ruskin (Cambridge School of Art).
Book Cover Design
David Doran
David Doran is an award-winning illustrator based in Falmouth, UK. He has created illustrations for a number of book publishers, as well as commercial clients including Nespresso, Apple and Bafta, and international publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, and The Washington Post. Published by Serpent's Tail, this book by Philip Teir tells the story of a young family’s summer trip to the Finnish coast, during which they face some difficult life choices. It explores themes of adulthood and childhood.
Category: Book Cover Design
Claire Scully
Claire Scully is a multi-disciplinary professional illustrator, author, and educator specializing in drawing. In her work, she explores a variety of themes, including the relationship between humans and the environment. Claire was asked to create an image that evoked a sense of being lost in the woods. Richard Meier’s book of poems sets out to “address the nature of the distances between us".
Category: Book Cover Design
Book Illustration
Sandra Rilova is a freelance illustrator based in Burgos, Spain. For this new, illustrated edition of Jostein Gaarder’s Norwegian bestseller, Rilova created 18 integrated duotone illustrations that tell the story of a Norwegian teenage girl’s introduction to the history of philosophy.
Category: Book Illustration
Harry Goldhawk
Harry Goldhawk is a freelance illustrator based in Newlyn, Cornwall, and co-founder of Papio Press, a lifestyle brand stocked in over 100 shops worldwide. He has worked with a diverse mix of commercial clients, from Penguin Random House to the Natural History Museum in London.
Category: Book Illustration
Illustrated Journalism
Ben Jones is an illustrator based in Manchester, UK. He created this illustration for BBC World Histories magazine. It explores the influences on George Orwell’s 1984–from Stalinist Russia to the Spanish Civil War.
Category: Illustrated Journalism
Cat O’Neil
Cat O’Neil is an award-winning freelance illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She created this series of illustrations for a special report on the impact of natural disasters for Iowa State University's alumni magazine, Forward.
Category: Illustrated Journalism
Paul Blow
Paul Blow is a Dorset-based illustrator who works predominantly on editorial commissions but has also created murals, T-shirts, and animations. His clients include The Guardian, Business Week, VH1, Byron, and The Independent. This illustration was the front cover of the summer 2019 edition of the University of Louisville Magazine. It tells the story of a piano teacher who helped refugees find their voices.
Category: Illustrated Journalism
Student Illustration
Dana Hong is an illustrator from Seoul, South Korea. This illustration is one in a series entitled, “Mediated Love.” Dana presented the series as her final project for her degree show at Central Saint Martins. It covers 24 hours in the life of a couple in a long-distance relationship, showing their parallel lives in two different time zones in two different cities: Seoul and London.
Category: Student Illustration
Beth Suzanna is a Bristol-based illustrator and designer whose work comments on recurring social issues in modern society. Her use of bold color and shape makes complex issues easy to digest in a playful manner. This illustration was inspired by a trip to the Philippines and the people she met there.
Category: Student Illustration
Mike Tewson is a UK-based illustrator who splits his time between Brighton and Bristol. This illustration is one of three that make up a series that spawned from a quote by existentialist philosopher Albert Camus: ‘He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe.’
Category: Student Illustration
Head to the V&A Illustration Awards’ official website for information about the winners.
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