The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
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There are many exciting things happening at Arena HQ we’re not sure where to start! We thought a good place to lay our first steps would be sharing with you the updated online portfolio of one of the newest members of the Arena team.
If ever there were a dream team, then Guy Bass and Steve May are it. Buck ’N’ Bronco: Hit the Road! is the latest illustrated fiction adventure from this dynamic duo.
The SAA and its member agencies have beensupporting the Agents for Change – Diversifying Illustration Group (AFC). Agents for Change is an assembly of illustration-based agencies in the UK, working together with the shared goal of increasing diversity by helping the under-represented across the creative industry. The group has recently conducted a diversity survey across the combined rosters of its member agencies and the results will be published on the group’s website which is slated to launch on 29th March.
The SAA has also input to a recent combined Association of Illustrators and Society of Authors submission to the House of Lords which was consulting about the future of the UK-EU services trade sector after Brexit. The SAA has also supplied the Association with updated information for illustrators and their agencies regarding tax provisions and documentation when trading with Europe and the rest of the world. This included an update regarding VAT post-Brexit. The SAA continues to support The British Copyright Council and is represented on the BCC’s Copyright and Technology Working Group.
Delighted to share the sign artwork for Chelsea’s newest pub, created by @emilyjaynerobertson. @thesurprisechelsea is an independent pub and private dining rooms, opening in West London this Spring, it’s the sister pub to the award winning @pheasantinnlambourn (who’s sign you might also recognise).
We’re so excited to share our latest project, a collaboration between @theacademy and @petraerikssonstudio.
As well as representing talented illustrators around the globe, Bright Illustration is proud to include a small roster of animators on their books.
Bright Founder and Director Vicki Willden-Lebrecht has been shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year in the British Book Awards 2021.
Laurindo Feliciano has been invited by British poster Mika, to be one of ten artists who will exhibit their work in public spaces all across Paris. Temporarily transforming the city into an open-air art gallery, Laurindo and the other artists work can be seen across 2500 sights, including billboards, flags and Morris columns, giving the city a fresh sense of creative vitality.
Laurindo’s piece is inspired by the surrealism movement and the posters of the Belle Epoque, featuring other-worldly heads gazing out of columns while we view the images as they are mounted to the Morris columns across Paris; an incredible contribution to a one-of-a-kind exhibition.
Laurindo Feliciana is represented by The Artworks
Phosphor's Alexander Jackson won in the personal category of the 2021 Communication Arts Illustration Competition with his illustrations of Samuel L. Jackson.
Phosphor's Dominika Lipniewska is illustrating a series of articles in FT Money by prominent thinkers, policymakers, and workplace experts on one of the biggest questions of the post-pandemic moment - what will the future of work look like and how do we build it?
