House of Illustration and The Folio Society are delighted to announce the finalists in their inaugural Book Illustration Competiton, ‘Getting inside The Outsider‘.
The judging panel, which included renowned illustrator and House of Illustration trustee Quentin Blake, writer and actor Simon Callow, and award winning illustrator Laura Carlin, have chosen a shortlist of six illustrators from the 650 competition entrants.
The competition was launched in October 2010, and asked entrants to produce a series of illustrations for The Folio Society’s new edition of the The Outsider by Albert Camus.
The winner, who has won a £4000 commission to complete the illustrations for the book, will be announced at an awards ceremony on July 4th where the new edition will also be unveiled. The five runners-up will each receive a cash prize of £500.
Find out more about the shortlisted illustrators below, and view their entries in our Online Exhibition.
If you are interested in entering future House of Illustration competitions, please click here to register with our Competitions website.
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The shortlist
Chungwoon Choi is a 28 year-old Korea-born illustrator who won the Gwangalli Eobang Festival poster competition and Mental Health Day UCC Contest in Korea before relocating to the UK. He is studying Illustration and Animation at Kingston University.
Georgina Hounsome is an award-winning illustrator and has exhibited at solo and group exhibitions in the UK and Germany. Her illustration commissions have appeared in a range of publications including The Guardian and Time Out. She is also a lecturer at Falmouth University.
Anne-Marie Jones is a 22 year-old Illustration student at Falmouth University. She is currently working on a children’s book idea and a series of images illustrating the fairytale Rapunzel, in preparation for her degree show.
Joseph Melhuish has just completed his first year studying BA Illustration and Animation at Kingston University. Joseph will be entering more illustration competitions this summer and taking on personal projects to expand his body of work.
Matthew Richardson studied at Middlesex University and Central Saint Martin’s. His illustration work has been widely used in book, newspaper, magazines, design, television and advertising. He is currently working on a year-long project to provide promotional imagery for the V&A using items from their vast collection.
Alenka Sottler was born in Slovenia in 1958. She has won several illustration prizes and exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In recent years she has mainly illustrated poetry and fairytales and made original graphics/engravings for collections of poetry.