Illustration by Laurel Molly
ALL WELCOME
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27/02/25 Join us from 3pm! at
16 Gallery, Rotunda Terrace, Montpellier St, Cheltenham,
GL50 1SW, UK
We're thrilled to announce that we have a special collaborative event planned for Thursday 27th February for the launch of the new Cheltenham Illustration Awards.
The Cheltenham Illustration Awards open:
Thursday 27th Feb, from 3pm at Sixteen Gallery in Cheltenham
THEN
Design Matters x Cheltenham Illustration Awards event:
Thursday 27th Feb, 6pm - 9pm at Park Campus, Cheltenham
Tickets for the Design Matters event can be bought HERE!
• £5 a ticket
• Students go for free – please claim a ticket so we know to expect you.
Guest Speakers:
Anna Ryzhova
Anna is a Russian born illustrator who is based in Turkey. She works as a freelance illustrator and her portfolio covers advertising, editorial, and children’s illustrations.
Megan Dunford
Megan is a zine collector, and co-runs the Just In Case Zine Library. She believes in the power of collaboration and also works for The Roses Theatre, a Tewksbury based theatre that provides theatre, music and cinema for everyone.
Cat O’Neill
Cat is an award-winning illustrator based in Edinburgh. She has self-authored a graphic novel titled Returning Home, based on mixed race heritage and what is meant by 'home'. Her illustration clients include The New York Times, WIRED, The Economist, and TIME Magazine.
The new annual will be available to buy at the 16 Gallery opening, and if you are a successful entrant you can collect your copy!
Please follow for updates!
Successful Entrants
Successful Entrants
Artwork by 2024 Judge Martha Lightfoot
Key:
Prize Winner
Highly Commended
Selected 2024
Anran Xu
Wong Man Hei
Anna Ryzhova
Alice Lemelin
Jingting Wang
Yutong Xu
Jodie Chiou
Gizem Ucar
Emily Robinson
Ciara Williams
Julia Morris
Chenwei Xu
Sara Bernardi
Susan Chou Lin
Daria Lada
Grace Coomer
Wei Qi Tan
Katy Alston
Ulrike Mieke Marais
Tilly Pettitt
Yutong Xu
Lorna Burt-Curties
Ivy Wang
Shufan Lin
Jiazhen Cai
Cerys Turner
F√òGRA
Elyon Liu
Yuan Liu
Natalie Knowles
Laurel Molly
Isabelle Overs
Anastasia Kostyuk
Jodie Dean
All these Artists will feature in both the printed annual and upcoming exhibition.
More about that very soon!
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The theme for 2024’s Exhibition & Annual is 'Future Forecasts'
The focus of the Awards is narrative. Visual storytelling, whether sequential or single image, gives scope to the imagination and opens up possibilities beyond the present moment; what happened before? What happens next?
Illustration by Zhenyi Zheng
“Embark on a visual journey into the unknown with the Illustration Awards theme "Future Forecasts." This theme invites artists to dive into the depths of their imaginations and depict their visions of the future through illustrations. From gleaming metropolises to the untamed frontiers of unexplored worlds, artists are encouraged to explore the myriad possibilities that lie ahead. Whether it's a utopian paradise, a dystopian nightmare, or something entirely unique, we want to see your interpretation of what the future holds.”
The most highly commended entries entered are chosen by a professional industry selection panel for inclusion in the annual and, from these, for the 2024-2025 exhibition. The Illustration awards receives over 800 entries each year from all over the world and is sent round the globe!
There are two sections of the Awards: 'Student' and 'Emerging and Established'. The Student category is open to all students over 18 years of age worldwide. The Emerging and Established category is open to any practising illustrators who wish to gain exposure of their work and to those who are more established and are already a part of the illustration world.
The selected work will be showcased at several galleries and events across the UK in 2024, as well as published in the 2024 Cheltenham Illustration Awards Annual, which will be distributed to educators and publishers, internationally. Past exhibition spaces have been Pitt Rivers Oxford, The London Book Fair, The Wilson Museum and Art Gallery, The Museum in the Park Stroud and the Chapel Arts, Cheltenham.
The 2024 Awards are now closed! Please check back in Spring 2025 for the competition re-opening!
We are very pleased to present the
2023 Award winners:
The 2023 Awards will be exhibited at Museum in the Park Stroud from 23 March to 28 April 2024 and The Wilson Museum Cheltenham from 4 May to 9 June 2024
Our Awards Annual will be available for sale from late February on our site and at select galleries and bookstores.
Kiki
Mrudula Kuvalekar
Tanya Kuznetsova
Sin U Leong
Martha Lightfoot
Yong Shiuan Lin
Rafael Macho
Moira Millman
Carles Garcia O'Dowd
Olesya Gonserovskaya
Noa Paran
Abbie Reilly
Anna Ryzhova
Anna Sailamaa
Jemma Skidmore
Jolyon Tetley
Itsumi Tozawa
Tatyana Ukleiko
Xian Tian Wang
Huixi Wu
Robert Young
Wei Zhang
Zhenyi Zheng
"0416"
2023 Jury & Prizes
Jasjyot Singh Hans & Monika Forsberg International artist jury
Lily Trotter, Oxford University Press (and team) Professional Portfolio Reviews
Pooki Press http://pookipresses.co.uk Studio tabletop artist press
Illustration Magazine UK Simon and his team will be publishing a one-page feature of a selected winner.
Printed in the CIA 2023 Annual & exhibited in the CIA 2023-24 tour