The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.

Artist Partners/LBF/Suzanne Carpenter

Artist Partners celebrated their 70th year in business last year having been established since 1951 in London  … as we were slightly limited on  various options of celebration, we decided to produce our very own zine ..

Here it is …Cover by Suzanne Carpenter, and depicting all our  wonderful artists work inside  …

It’s available as a hard copy or ezine by request  - I will be seeing clients at the LBF next month, and will look forward to distributing  to clients that are in attendance at the fair.

See you there …London Book Fair - 5 - 7 April  - Olympia London.

 

Artist Partners | Illustrator & Artist Agency, United Kingdom

Rachael Saunders illustrates an AR pony trail at the National Gallery.

To mark the release of My Little Pony: A New Generation on Netflix, Rachael Saunders has been commissioned to reimagine ten famous horse paintings displayed in The National Gallery, London. Each illustration had to evoke the painterly style and composition of the original, but also encapsulate a fresh, vibrant energy, faithful to the new generation My Little Pony film produced by Netflix.

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House of Illustration/Quentin Blake Centre

Bad news for the House of Illustration that its to close but good news that its to resurface as the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in a major £8m refurbishment project to become the world’s largest public arts space dedicated to illustration.

The renamed Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will be a new cultural landmark for the UK, redeveloping New River Head in Islington, London into what will also be a permanent home for the archive of the organisation’s founder, Sir Quentin Blake, with selections from his archive of more than 40,000 works on permanent display.

read more source: Digital Arts

The SAA…what we’ve been up to…

As well as promoting the talents of established artists throughout the world, the SAA take pride in nurturing new talent as part of our Education Programme. Over the years we’ve invited creative graduates nationwide to attend portfolio surgeries, giving students an insight into what agents and commissioners look for in a portfolio and over the last few years we have started a mentorship programme.

 

We are very pleased to be involved with the Pathways Into Children’s Publishing which has been designed collaboratively by the House of Illustration and Pop Up Projects offering tuition, one-to-one mentoring and professional guidance to aspiring illustrators in the UK and abroad who are interested in getting into children’s publishing. This month SAA members Tamlyn Francis and Caroline Thomson from Arena Illustration took part in the Pathways Professional Day delivering a 30 minute webinar on Building a Profile and the importance of portfolios, online presence and self-promotion.

We continue to enjoy our long relationship with the Association of Illustrators and this month we’ve been very busy. SAA member agent Laura Lee from Debut Art chaired a talk called: Be Seen - Representation (what makes it a winning team, how they worked together) with Paperface (the previous winner of the SAA Agents Award for New Talent in 2019). This was part of a programme of webinars celebrating The World Illustration Awards 2020.  SAA member agent Caroline Thomson from Arena Illustration is one of three agent mentors who are part of the AOI’s 2021 Mentorship scheme. This year the AOI are looking to support people under represented in the agenting field, either at the early stage of their agent career, or who are interested in becoming an agent.

Jiawen Chen wins the WIA SAA Agents Award for New Talent in Illustration

We are delighted to announce know that this year’s winner of the WIA SAA Agents Award for New Talent in Illustration is Jiawen Chen for her work titled ME INSIDEShe was born in Guangzhou, China and is now based in New York City. She got her BFA Illustration degree in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art in 2018, and MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Art in 2020. She creates her work using different techniques, including digital painting, silkscreen printing and watercolour.

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