BATSFORD PRIZE
Winners 2019
Batsford and Pavilion Children’s Books are delighted to announce the winners of the Batsford Prize 2019. The theme for this year’s award was ‘Being Human’ and the judges were set with the difficult task of selecting the winners from a record number of entries. The 6 categories are: Applied Art, Fine Art, Fashion, Illustration (UK), Illustration (International) and Children’s Illustration (Presented by Pavilion Children’s Books). The 2018 award was judged by industry professionals Neil Dunnicliffe, Vaughan Grylls, Emily Haworth-Booth, Cas Holmes, Frances Moffatt, Sara Mulvanny and Tina Persaud.
The winner of each category received a £500 ($500 for the international category) cash prize and books from Batsford and Pavilion Children’s Books. Art supplier Cass Art presented the ‘Cass Art Award’ to Lewis Darley, a further £500 cash prize.
The Batsford Prize is an annual award for students across the subjects Fine and Applied Art, Fashion, Illustration and Children’s Illustration.
View previous years’ winners here.
Applied Art
Winner: Joy
Daria Iwon, BA (Hons) Textiles, Arts University Bournemouth
Runner up: Haptic Memories
Ana Luiz-Wright, BA Fashion and Textiles: Print, University for the Creative Arts Rochester
Runner up: The Future Is Female
Lorna Robey, BA Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design, Leeds Arts University
Fine Art
Winner: The Punishment of Tantalus
Ziwei Wu, MFA in Computational Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Runner up: Familiar Unfamiliar
Jo Lauren, MA Photography, Norwich University of the Arts
Runner up: Wedding Series
Rosie Rendles, Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University
Fashion
Winner: Fashion Collection ‘Makoto’
Jogaile Zairyte, Fashion and Textile Design, University of Portsmouth
Runner up: Happy Chaos
Courtney Hoare, Fashion and Textile Design, University of Portsmouth
Runner up: Skin Garments
Megumi Ohata, BA (Hons) Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London and Misako Sato, Kanazawa College of Art, Japan
Illustration
Winner: Dirt
Lewis Darley, Illustration, University of the West of England
Winner of the Cass Art Award
Runner up: Mr Anxiety and his Thorny Nightmare
Guhee Kim, MA Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London
Runner up: The Giant of Grief
Fay Troote, Illustration, Arts University Bournemouth
Children’s Illustration, presented by Pavilion Children’s Books
Winner: A Grand Life of Tomatoes
Severus Shintsz Lian, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Runner up: Being Human: Please Stand Behind the Yellow Lion
Alice Courtley, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Runner up: Lascaux
Kate Winter, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Illustration (International)
Winner: On the tube
Alexandra Dzhiganskaya, Graphics and Advertising, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Runner up: Dis/Connect
Shoshana Gordon, Illustration, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Runner up: Lady Chatterley
Jo Zixuan Zhou, Pictorial, School of Visual Arts, New York
Winners 2018
Batsford and Pavilion Children’s Books are very delighted to announce the winners and runners up in the Batsford Prize 2018. We received a huge amount of entries from students responding to this year’s theme ‘Craving Colour’. The judges had a difficult job selecting the winners across the 6 categories Applied Art, Fine Art, Fashion, Illustration (UK), Illustration (International) and Children’s Illustration (Presented by Pavilion Children’s Books). The 2018 award was judged by industry professionals Anne Kelly, Sara Mulvanny, Clara Vulliamy,Vaughan Grylls, Gemma Williams, Neil Dunnicliffe and Tina Persaud.
The Batsford Prize 2018 winners and runners up were revealed at an event at art supplier Cass Art’s flagship store in Islington, London. The winner of each category received a £500 ($500 for the international category) cash prize and books from Batsford and Pavilion Children’s Books. Applied Art winner Zoe Wenban also received the ‘Cass Art Award’ a further £500 cash prize from Cass Art who were supporting the award for the 3rd year running.
The Batsford Prize is an annual award for students across the subjects Fine and Applied Art, Fashion, Illustration and Children’s Illustration. New for 2018 was the introduction of an international illustration category, opening up the award for students from the whole world.
Applied Art
Winner: What Are They Waiting For? – Cass Art Award Winner
Zoe Wenban, BA (Hons) Textile Design, Falmouth University
Runner up: Maximalism Meets Minimalism
Louisa Bishop, BA (Hons) Textiles, Arts University Bournemouth
Runner up: Craving Colour
Victoria Paulley, MA Textile Design, Norwich University of the Arts
Fine Art
Winner: Onion Town
Ronnie Houselander Cook, Master of Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Runner up: Hydro-Logics
Monica Bonomo, MA Fine Art, Arts University Bournemouth
Runner up: Nuverland
Elliot Nehra, Fine Art: Painting, University of Brighton
Illustration
Winner: Music Celebration
Lauren Morsley, BDes Illustration, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Runner up: Crushing
Sophie Burrows, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Runner up: Craving Colour
Ruth Martin, Illustration, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Children’s Illustration, presented by Pavilion Children’s Books
Winner: The Star in the Forest
Helen Kellock, MA Illustration, The Glasgow School of Art
Runner up: Ready…Steady…Go!
Harriet Hobday, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Runner up: The Scientists and The Giant Arctic Jellyfish
Chloe Savage, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Fashion
Winner: Slot Swosh Tear Pop Poke Squish
Rose Dutton, BA Fashion and Textiles, University of Portsmouth
Runner up: Distorting DNA
Emma Astill, Textile Design, Arts University Bournemouth
Runner up: Ode to Hamburg
Svea Beckedorf, BA Fashion Design Womenswear, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Illustration (International)
Winner: Colorized Life
Camelia Pham, Graphic Design, Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone, Italy
Winners 2017
Theme: Interpreting Nature
Judges: Adam Hargreaves, Alice Pattullo, Vaughan Grylls, Cas Holmes, Gemma Williams, Neil Dunnicliffe & Tina Persaud
Fine/Applied Art
Winner: Jemima Hall, Oxford Brookes University, ‘Temporality’ (also winner of the Cass Art Award)
Runner up: Farah Ishaq, University of East London, ‘Mural for St. James’
Runner up: Nathan Walker, University of Derby, ‘Individuality’
Fashion
Winner: Valeriia Kostina, London College of Fashion, ‘Sensorium’
Runner up: Brittany Alker, University of Central Lancashire, ‘Alternative Nature’
Runner up: Evangelina Rodriguez Gonzalo, London College of Fashion, ‘Where the River Meets Fashion’
Illustration
Winner: Shih-Hsien Hsu, Royal College of Art, ‘The Fragments’
Runner up: Andrew Wilson, University of West England, ‘Wool Gathering’
Runner up: Ursula Tolliday-Bolland, Cambridge School of Art, ‘Desert’, ‘Jungle’, ‘Mountains’, ‘Ocean’ & ‘Arctic’
Children’s Illustration (presented by Pavilion Children’s Books)
Winner: Katie Cottle, University of the West of England, ‘Home Grown’
Runner up: Anna Doherty, Cambridge School of Art, ‘Forest’
Runner up: Hannah Mitchell, Arts University Bournemouth, ‘Deforestation’
Winners 2016
This year’s Batsford Prize has been the biggest one yet, with a record number of entries and the addition of Cass Art sponsorship and prize money. Cass Art joining us in sponsoring the overall prize was a natural fit as they share our commitment to encouraging art wherever we can.
At Batsford, we publish – day to day – a variety of fine art, illustration, fashion design and applied art in our books. I see new art on a daily basis as we commission, design and shape our books. However, the entries we get in for the Batsford Prize still stand out, they still manage to excite us, showing originality, endeavour and skill that confirms our optimism for the future of art and indeed art publishing.
We have been enjoying the Batsford Prize for several years now and it’s growing, last year we added the Fashion category and this year we have added again another category, that of Illustration.
So, we now have three categories of prizes: Fine and Applied Art; Fashion; and Illustration. Plus we have the Cass Art prize (which is the overall winner from the three categories).
With hundreds of entries this year, it was a mammoth judging session and I would like to thank again our judges for their stamina, enthusiasm and restrained biscuit-eating on the day. My thanks to judges: Michael Foreman, one of Britain’s most celebrated children’s illustrators; Vaughan Grylls, fine art photographer and former Director of the Kent Institute of Art and Design; Gemma Williams, a leading fashion writer and author; Jean Draper, one of the world’s best textile artists and lecturer in textiles; and Katie Cowan, the Publishing Director at Pavilion Books.
The theme this year was ‘Reuse, Recycle and Reclaim’ and produced some terrifically original entries. The art we saw included everything from discarded buttons to old books, from car doors to coat hangers, from mashed up papers to marshmallow sweets.
Some of the entries interpreted the brief by the theme of recycling and some interpreted the brief by both theme and the media used to make the artwork.
All the shortlisted entries were very, very accomplished but I would like to send a huge thank you to all the entrants as we enjoyed so many of them and the shortlisting in itself was a tough choice.
From the shortlist we had to pick a winner and two runners up from each of the categories. Robust discussion is the best way to describe the judging but we wanted to give full appreciation of the qualities of all the shortlisted entries. They were all very strong entries and in many ways all of them could have been the winners. But our final choice of ultimate winners and runners up was made and a huge congratulations to:
Illustration
Kaye Lindsay (University of Derby): ‘Rejuvenation’ (winner)
Kaye Lindsay’s Rejuvenation was a delicate and heartwarming animal illustration that reminded us why we must reuse, recycle and reclaim.
Aiden Moore (University of Hertfordshire): ‘Secret London’ (runner up)
Karl Ricardo (University of Derby): ‘City of Ruin’ (runner up)
Fashion
Stine Sandermann Olsen (Chelsea Collage of Arts): ‘Shedding My Skin’ (winner)
Stine Sandermann’s Shedding My Skin was a beautiful collection of wool textiles that could grace any catwalk. It was the most determined reclamation of discarded sheep wool and the final artwork was stunning.
Hendrickje Schimmel (Royal College of Art): ‘Storage’ (runner up)
Joao Elias (London College of Fashion): ‘From landfill to luxury’ (runner up)
Fine and Applied Arts
Joonhong Min University College London (Slade School of Fine Art) ‘Urban Methodologies’ (winner)
Joonhong Min’s Urban Methodologies was a feat of construction and beautiful obsessive attention to detail. We loved the detailed ink work and the ambition of the work.
Josephine Dove (Arts University Bournemouth): Untitled (runner up)
Megan Fatharly, Falmouth University, ‘Organic Chaos’ (runner up)
The Cass Art Award
Joonhong Min University College London, Slade School of Fine Art, ‘Urban Methodologies’ (winner)
– Tina Persaud, Batsford Publisher
Winners 2015
The theme for the Batsford Prize 2015 was ‘Past and Present’ and in addition to prize for Applied and Fine Arts, this year also had a Batsford Prize for Fashion, again open to students. We started the prize for Applied and Fine Arts because Batsford is well known for its applied art and particularly its textile books. However, we have been publishing books on fashion for almost just as long so to have a separate prize for Fashion definitely feels right.
This year we had a record number of entrants for the Applied/Fine Art prize and very, very encouraging numbers for the Fashion prize.
The judges – Vaughan Grylls, Jean Draper, Thomas Makryniotis and Dierdre Clancy, Katie Cowan – and I have enjoyed the process of considering all the entrants, which were of a very high standard and produced some ding-dong discussions which only calmed down on the intake of lunch and some Prosecco.
But that is the point of the prize (arguing rather than drinking): to give all the entrants our full consideration. Each of the judges found something different in the entries and championed elements not considered by others. All sorts of things jumped out of us as we went through the entries. Sometimes it was the humour of the piece, sometimes the sadness. Sometimes it was the kinkiness – one judge particularly liked the latex corset for men. Sometimes it was the unusual technique that caught our eye, such as the etching on Emily Godden’s piece, or the plasterwork on the sculpture by Elyse Bennett.
But the thing that the judges always noted and wanted to applaud particularly was the sheer amount of work that had gone into the entries. A huge congratulations to all the entrants for the work and the quality. And a special thanks to all the tutors that encouraged their students to apply.
After some arguing, closer inspection and thought, we managed to reduce the shortlist down to three final entries in each category. So, many, many congratulations to:
Fine/Applied Arts
Constantin Malmare, Coventry University, for Past Present (winner)
Katrina Ellis, Norwich University of the Arts, London Edit 6 (runner up)
Cara Green, Plymouth University, Stitched Self (runner up)
Fashion
Ella Seal (Nottingham Trent University): Captain Duffle Cape (winner)
Tarsianna Nkuranga (Coventry University): Past and Present (runner up)
Katherine Taylor (Loughborough University): That which is Absolutely Still or Absolutely Perfect is Absolutely Dead (runner up)
I would like to send a big thank you to all the entrants for sending in their entries and to the judges for their time and enthusiasm in judging the work.
– Tina Persaud, Batsford Publisher
Winners 2014
The theme for this year’s Batsford Prize (2014) was ‘Working in Three Dimensions’ and entry was again open to students studying Textiles, Design, Fine Art, Photography and Illustration. The deliberations have been as much fun as last year. The judges – Vaughan Grylls, Jean Draper, Katie Cowan and myself – had quite a heated debate over lunch, coffee, tea and sticky chocolate biscuits, as there were some very interesting and provocative entries. They made us smile, nod, wrinkle our brows, look again, and even laugh.
The standard of the work was once again extremely high and all the judges were impressed by the range of the work as well as their quality. There was some very accomplished technique on display as well as original creative concepts. The work ranged from sewing your clothes around your body as you are wearing them, 3D printing, knitted sculpture to cast pewter work and detailed goldwork embroidery. As the publisher of a book list on textile art, I was delighted to see so much stitch and fabric on display.
After some agonizing, we managed to reduce the short list down to three final entries. However, we were unable to decide on the ultimate winner as two entries stood out so strongly. So we have decided to award joint first prize to two entrants. So, many, many congratulations to:
Waikeung Lam (Birmingham Institute of Art and Design): The Use of Useless (winner)
Hyeyoung Maeng (Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts in Lancaster University): Big Bracelets (winner)
Hannah Newton (Falmouth University): Mark of the Maker (runner up)
Fiona Ward (Barton Peveril Sixth Form College): Floating (special commendation)
I would like to send a big thank you to all the entrants for sending in their entries and to the judges for their time and enthusiasm in judging the work.
– Tina Persaud, Batsford Publisher
Winners 2013
As one of the judges for the Batsford Prize, open to undergraduates in applied and fine arts, I have spent the last couple of weeks looking at some thought-provoking and innovative applied and fine art from the entrants. The theme of the entries this year was ‘The Written Word’ and entry was open to students studying Textiles, Design, Fine Art, Photography and Illustration.
The standard of the work was very, very high and all the judges were impressed by the calibre of the work, both creatively and technically. We thoroughly enjoyed the process of looking through and discussing the entries (and the lunch that went with it). The work ranged from an alternative publication format that was sewn, collage, stitched writing, ‘painted’ writing to reworkings of a dress pattern. As the publisher of a book list on textile art, I was delighted to see cutting-edge use of stitch and cloth in so much of the work.
The judging panel, after some deliberation, whittled the entries down to a shortlist and then down to the final three: one winner and two runners up. While there were slight differences in our preferences, there was one stand-out entry that was highlighted by all the judges. The two runners-up entries were also strong pieces of work that were selected by the judges. So many, many congratulations to:
Jessica Kopka, University of Huddersfield, for Overcoming 2012 (winner)
Kate Whitton, Norwich University of Arts, for A Polish Narrative (runner up)
Victoria Pickering, University of Ulster, for A Package of Dreams (runner up)
I would like to send a huge thank you to all the entrants for sending in their entries and to the judges for their time and enthusiasm in judging the work.
– Tina Persaud, Batsford Publisher