Awards

Award wins, shortlistings and honours for illustrators represented by SAA member agencies, including the World Illustration Awards.

Awards

Awards · The Artworks

Pop Up Peekaboo, Seashore – Wins Silver!

We are so chuffed for our Amy Grimes, who has won joint Silver in the Best Baby Book 0-2 category for ‘Pop Up Peekaboo! Seashore’ for DK books, in The Junior Design Awards 2026.

October 2026

Awards · Bright Group

Gavin Scott wins The Children’s Wainwright Prize 2026

Otherlands, written by Thomas Halliday and illustrated by Gavin Scott, won the 2026 Children’s Wainwright Prize for Non-Fiction and the 2026 Children’s Wainwright Prize for Book of the Year.

October 2026

Awards · Artist Partners Ltd

Winner of Sky Landscape Artist 2026

Winner of Sky Landscape Artist 2026 - our very own  artist Kim Day represented by Artist Partners. 

September 2026

Awards · Debut Art

Chuan Ming Ong – Silver Medal Winner at the New York Society of Illustrators Awards

We’re very pleased to share that Chuan Ming Ong has won a silver medal from the NY Society of Illustrators in the Institutional and Uncommissioned categories!!

September 2026

Awards · Illustration Ltd

Muhammed Sajid – WIA 2026 Longlist

Muhammed Sajid's reflective series of portraits from Kerala has been longlisted in the World Illustration Awards 2026. Muhammed's illustrations are shaped by a deep interest in the stories people carry, and this sensitivity has earned his self-initiated series Folks from Kerala a place on the longlist for the World Illustration Awards 2026, in the Exploration category.   […]

June 2026

Awards · Illustration Ltd

Svetlana Molodchenko for Williams Sonoma

  Svetlana Molodchenko has been recognized with a Communication Arts Illustration 2026 Award of Excellence for her Williams Sonoma commission, Dream Store Pattern. For this project, she created a fully vector, continuous pattern capturing multi-level rooms, staircases, and shelves filled with the brand’s real catalogue products, layering detail to evoke the charm of a whimsical, immersive […]

March 2026

Awards · Debut Art

Lisa Sheehan – WIA 2025 Category Winner Professional Editorial

Hearty congratulations to Lisa and the Art Direction team at Which? regarding this award winning cover illustration.

September 2025

Awards · Phosphor Art

Lynn Hatzius Shortlisted for World Illustration Awards

  Phosphor's Lynn Hatzius has been shortlisted for the AOI's World Illustration Awards 2025. Lynn submitted a series of collages she created for an A Level textbook, published by Liber for use at Swedish high schools.

July 2025

Awards

WIA2025 Touring Exhibition at The Coningsby Gallery

    The World Illustration Awards are presented annually by the Association of Illustrators in partnership with the USA-based Directory of Illustration to support, promote and celebrate contemporary illustration being made today across the globe. This year celebrates 10 years of the World Illustration Awards, and we are delighted to share that the first venue […]

May 2025

Awards

FangFang Han wins the WIA SAA Agents Award for New Talent in Illustration

  We are delighted to announce that this year’s World Illustration/SAA Award for New Talent winner is FangFang Han for her animation ’The Tube', FangFang Han's prize will be six month’s trial representation including mentoring and career development by one of the SAA’s member agents.

September 2024

Awards · The Artworks

Lucy Davey Highly Commended for Waitrose Christmas Winter Village Chocolate Box

  Lucy Davey came highly commended at the recent World Illustration Awards, for this beautiful packaging project for Waitrose. Lucy illustrated the Christmas Winter Village Chocolate Box, depicting a magically festive scene full of fun details to spot.     It was a joy to see Lucy’s work brought to life on this inventive packaging, […]

September 2024

Awards · The Artworks

Claire Harrup Winner of V&A Adult Non Fiction award

  We were very proud to see our Claire Harrup and her stunning artwork for ‘Britain’s Landmarks and Legends’ take home the winning prize for the Adult Non-Fiction category at the V&A Illustration Awards. A beautiful book commissioned by the lovely team at Harper Collins for National Trust.         Claire Harrup is […]

September 2024