Artists and Illustrators A - Z
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Sophie Beer
Sophie Beer is an award-winning illustrator/author living in Brisbane, Australia. She completed a dual degree in Law and Creative Industries with distinction at Queensland University of Technology but found the whole law thing unutterably dull and now works primarily in children's and editorial illustration. Revelling in colour, shape and texture, she lives by one simple rule: art should never be boring. She has books published with publishers in Australia and overseas including Hardie Grant Children’s Books, Penguin Random House, Hachette, Scribble, and others. When she's not illustrating and writing, Sophie thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books, and equality.
Alice Lindstrom
Alice Lindstrom is an illustrator and artist who creates painterly paper collages by hand using cut and paste techniques. Alice has illustrated three picture books, working with publishers including Hardie Grant, Scribble Books and Quarto Kids. She lives in Adelaide with her husband and daughter.
Georgina Chadderton
Georgina Chadderton is a freelance cartoonist and educator from Adelaide. Gina runs a variety of workshops in comic-making, art and drawing skills for kids, teens and adults. She is working on her graphic novel memoir; Oh, Brother, which will be published simultaneously by Penguin Random House and Random House Graphic in four territories; the US, UK, Canada and Australia, in 2024.
Photo credit Gabriel Clark.
Serena Geddes
Serena Geddes is an international author/illustrator, ex Disney artist and a lover of dogs and coffee. She has illustrated over seventy titles for picture books and middle grade readers and is about to step into the colourful world of graphic novels. Some of her works include Rosie and Rasmus (USA) the Lulu Bell, Misty Inn and Pepper Creek Ponies series. In her spare time, she captures her life through sketches and comics, seeks out humour in her week and teaches illustration and mindfulness journaling. As a Disney artist she worked on sequels to the Lion King, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid and Jungle Book which has enabled her to capture emotion and movement with her characters. Serena works both digitally and traditionally in watercolour and pencil. She is working on a graphic novel.
Dave Petzold
Dave Petzold is an illustrator and author living on Bundjalung Country in Lennox Head, New South Wales.
He loves creating characters who are curious and adventurous about their world and his stories embody a love of nature. He works initially with graphite pencil, ink or oil paint before adding colour and texture digitally.
In 2021 his debut picture book, Seven Seas of Fleas was CBCA Shortlisted for the New Illustrator Award. He most recently illustrated The Kindness Club, with Hardie Grant Children’s Books.
Judith Rossell
Judith Rossell is the multi-award-winning author-illustrator of the bestselling Stella Montgomery series. (Withering-by-Sea, Wormwood Mire and Wakestone Hall). Judith has written fifteen books and illustrated more than eighty, most recently the novelty board book Play with your Plate, published by Abrams Books in New York, and the picture books Bogtrotter and Pink! both written by Margaret Wild. Her work has been published in the US and UK, and translated into more than twenty languages.
Before becoming an illustrator, Judith worked as a scientist at CSIRO, and in product development for a cotton spinning company. She lives in Melbourne.
Kim Siew
Kim Siew is an illustrator and artist living in Sydney. She draws pictures digitally or using fine tip pen and paper collage, and paints street murals, usually of quirky, playful characters moving about their whimsical everyday. She has illustrated two published children's books as well an acclaimed memory game series including At the Gallery, At the Bookshop and At the Museum with Thames and Hudson Australia.
Sally Soweol Han
Sally Soweol Han is a writer and illustrator from Sydney who describes her style as 'painting her imagination'. Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2020, Sally uses traditional techniques to create stunning art. Sally’s first picture book and author / illustrator, Tiny Wonders, was published in 2022 by University of Queensland Press. She has recently illustrated a number of books, including for Allen and Unwin and Magic Cat.
Laura Stitzel
Laura Stitzel an author, illustrator and animator from Melbourne. Her work is a combination of watercolour, ink and painting. She is the author/illustrator of two picture books - Mr Mo Starts to Grow and Moonlight Mums. She has illustrated books for Penguin Random House, Hachette, Scholastic and Affirm Press. As a background artist and animator in Australia and Canada, Laura has worked on animated television shows for PBS, Disney, Warner Bros, Netflix, ABC and more.
Robin Tatlow Lord
Robin Tatlow-Lord is an illustrator, writer and cartoonist living in Adelaide, on Kaurna land. Working with pencils, watercolor, ink, collage and digital techniques, Robin has a great love of character and storytelling. Robin’s vivid and expressive illustrations for her first picture book, Go Away, Worry Monster! earned her a place on the 2021 shortlist for the CBCA New Illustrator Award. Her second book, Tilly’s First Day Twist, was published in April 2022 by Little Book Press. Robin is currently illustrating a middle grade series with Affirm Press and has a middle grade graphic novel series in development. She also conducts kids' art workshops and is the Education Coordinator for Patch Theatre.
Audrey Villafana
Audrey Villafaña is a Filipino-Australian illustrator and writer based in Sydney. She’s always been drawn to stories about diversity and differences, and is always looking to help kids ‘find their place in the world’ through her work. Her illustration style takes a mixed-media ‘scrapbook’ approach, incorporating hand-generated textures, colours and assets to create works with a fun and playful feel. She is a recipient of the inaugural Mirror Mentorship, run by Scribble and Think+DO Tank Foundation. This program works to expand opportunities for diverse and multilingual creators in Australian children’s publishing. She graduated with a Bachelor of Design (Animation) from UTS, and has had work published in Total Girl Magazine, and screened at Vivid and Sydney Fringe Festival.
Sarah Zweck
Sarah Zweck is an artist illustrator who lives in Melbourne. Play is at the forefront of her work, she creates expressive characters that evoke humour and heart. She enjoys working with mixed-media, using materials that allow her to experiment with mark-making, colour, and texture. Originally from the UK, Sarah graduated from Leeds with a BA (Hons) in Fashion Design and worked as a childrenswear designer in London before embarking on a career in illustration.
Anna Zobel
Anna Zobel is an artist and educator from Melbourne. She is the illustrator of the CBCA-shortlisted Who’s Your Real Mum? and the author and illustrator of Little Gem and Little Gem and the Mysterious Letters. When she isn’t making books, Anna runs art workshops for children and adults.
Anna is working in a new illustrated middle grade novel, This Camp is Doomed, with Penguin Random House Australia.