V&A Illustration Awards

The American born artist Sterling Hundley was named as the overall winner of the V&A Illustration Awards 2015 in a ceremony held at the Museum on May, 18th.

Jonathan Burton, <i>Life, the Universe and Everything</i>. © Folio Society

Sterling Hundley has been announced as winner of the V&A Illustration Awards 2015 for his series of illustrations for classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (commissioned by The Folio Society).

Sterling Hundley, <i>Treasure Island</i>. © Folio Society — Sterling Hundley, *Treasure Island*. © Folio Society

The judging panel – composed by Editor of Artists and Illustrators, Steve Pill; Retail Consultant and Broadcaster, Mary Portas; and the late Director of Capital Programmes at the Royal Collection, Moira Gemmill – particularly praised Hundley’s work which carefully echoes NC Wyeth’s 1911 illustrations for the same novel. Hundley approached the project by creating traditional, large scale oil paintings, he then combined these with drawings using Photoshop to create contemporary illustrations for the novel.

The judges praised Hundley, describing his work as “richly coloured, atmospheric and stylistically consistent”, “appropriately sinister” and “bold, brave and powerful”.

Simon Pemberton, <i>The Blackest Isles</i>. Published in <i>Financial Times Weekend Food and Drink Special</i> — Simon Pemberton, *The Blackest Isles*. Published in *Financial Times Weekend Food and Drink Special*

Of the 14 shortlisted illustrators, the winners of the four individual categories are as follows: Book Illustration Award and Overall Winner Sterling Hundley for Treasure Island (The Folio Society); Editorial Illustration Award Simon Pemberton for The Blackest Isles (FT Weekend Magazine); Book Cover Illustration Award Yehrin Tong for The Book of Strange New Things (Canongate); Best Student Illustration Daphne Christoforou for No Thing (Royal College of Art); Student Runner-Up Dan Ungureanu for Nara and the Island (Anglia Ruskin Cambridge School of Art). The separate category of Student Award was judged by previous award winners and illustrators Yasmeen Ismail and Helen Musselwhite.

Category winners are awarded £2,000, with the overall winner receiving an additional £2,000. This year’s shortlist was drawn from over 800 submissions.

A display of original artwork by the winners can be seen outside the V&A’s National Art Library until 2 August 2015.

Left: Jonathan Gray, The Ravens. © Clerkenwell Press/Profile Books. Right: Tatsuro Kiuchi, The Day of the Jackal. © Folio Society

Left: Yehrin Tong, The Book of Strange Things. © Canongate Books. Right: Jonathan Burton, Life, the Universe and Everything. © Folio Society

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right: Jonathan Burton, Life, the Universe and Everything. © Folio Society. Right: Romy Blumel, Finding your Sixth Scent. Published in Aura – The Rolls Royce Manchester magazine.

until August 2, 2015
V&A Illustration Awards 2015
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V&A Illustration Awards

The American born artist ﻿Sterling Hundley was named as the overall winner of the V&A Illustration Awards 2015 in a ceremony held at the Museum on May, 18th.

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The American born artist Sterling Hundley was named as the overall winner of the V&A Illustration Awards 2015 in a ceremony held at the Museum on May, 18th.