The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
ILLUSTRATION NEWS
Bestselling author/illustrator, Jonny Duddle and Cyber Group Studios, presented the Gigantosaurus trailer based on Jonny's picture book at Cartoon Forum 2015 in Toulouse this month. The forum is an event where all the great and the good of the European animation world gather together to pitch their projects to broadcasters and investors.
Paul Davis & Patrick Vale were asked to design and execute a 50m x 4m mural for the new Picturehouse Central Cinema in Piccadilly, London.
Take a look at this video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Nxkp2oAXgTI
Congratulations to Benji Davies who has won the AOI World Illustration Awards : Picture Book Category 2015 for Grandad’s Island (Simon & Schuster).
Last month we welcomed Column Arts Agency and founder Will Astbury to the Society of Artist Agents.
Interview with Will Astbury
Q. What drove you to establish Column Arts Agency?
I dreamt up the idea for Column Arts Agency in Manchester in January 2011. A self-employed journalist and marketer at the time, I had been helping artist-friends to do their tax returns. I’d been doing my own for years and I’d always been meticulous when running my business and doing my own accounting.
Frances Castle was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to create illustrations for their new Kid's Guide to their London museum. The book is aimed at children aged 7 to 11 and had to be accessible and appealing to both girls and boys. IWM London re-opened it's doors after a refurbishment in July 2014, in time for the Centenary of the First World War and Frances' brief was to interpret the newly designed atrium with it's displays of iconic planes and other objects. She also produced a series of comic strips telling stories of people's experience of war and conflict up to the present day.
Emma Cowlam has successfully launched into a new linear style which is going down a storm
Emma, known for her her unique approach to hand sewn illustrations; is successful , working with the likes of Elle, Elle Decoration, Living Etc & Country Homes and Interiors, Victoria & Albert Museum and Radley.
A new museum dedicated to the art of storytelling, funded by legendary Star Wars director, George Lucas, is to be built in Chicago and planned to be completed in 2018.
We are extremely proud to learn that artwork from Chris Moore is one of the first to be selected to exhibit.
Chris is a world-renowned commercial illustrator specialising in sci-fi illustration and the piece chosen by the Lucas Museum was painted for Philip K. Dick’s classic novel “Ubik”. It fits beautifully in the catalogue of images that have so far been revealed on their website.
We love the new cover look Carrie May has created for best selling author Katherine Rundell. Carrie worked with the design team at Faber and Faber to illustrate this beautiful cover for Rundell’s debut novel ‘The Girl Savage’, the tale of a young girl uprooted from her life in Zimbabwe, destined for boarding school in London. We love Carrie’s artwork, which captures Will’s wild adventures on her African farm.
Carrie May is represented by New Division
Phosphor Art’s Fiammetta Dogi recently bagged some space in the gorgeous new Betty Annual. Betty is a beautifully designed independent magazine for women about women. Their philosophy is for people to embrace who they are and celebrate it. Fiammetta created several chapter headings consisting of beautifully intricate flowers wrapping around letters – definitely worth cutting out and framing!