Published: 20 May 2024 at 14:01
Kate Winter, Angela Vives and Bia Melo are in the running for illustration award
An Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) lecturer and two former ARU students have been named on the shortlist for this year’s £5,000 Klaus Flugge Prize.
Lecturer Kate Winter is joined by Angela Vives and Bia Melo on the six-strong shortlist for the 2024 award, which recognises the most promising and exciting newcomers to children’s picture book illustration.
All three are graduates of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration course at ARU’s Cambridge School of Art and will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of fellow ARU alumni Mariajo Ilustrajo, who won the award last year.
Kate (pictured), who lives in Cambridge, completed the MA in Children’s Book Illustration in 2019 and has since returned to ARU to teach on the BA (Hons) Illustration course.
Kate is shortlisted for her book The Fossil Hunter (Puffin Books), which tells the story of Mary Anning, whose 19th century work discovering fossils in the cliffs of the Jurassic Coast paved the way for modern palaeontology.
Angela Vives is shortlisted for her illustrations for Bright Stars of Black British History (Thames and Hudson), written by J. T. Williams, which shines a light on the lives of Black British people through history, through a series of fascinating biographies highlighting the likes of Ignatius Sancho, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Claudia Jones.
And East London-based Bia Melo, who is originally from Brazil, is shortlisted for The Dream Book (Templar), which is a book for young readers all about Nina and her attempts to capture her amazing dreams through illustration.
Kate Winter, Lecturer in Illustration at ARU, said:
Shelley Ann Jackson, Associate Professor and Course Leader of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at ARU, said:
Chair of the judges Julia Eccleshare, Director of the Hay Children’s Festival, said:
Established in 2016, the prize was set up to honour Klaus Flugge, founder of Andersen Press and a leading light in the world of children’s publishing and illustration. The winner, who will receive a cheque for £5,000, will be announced at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, 11 September.
Meanwhile, eight ARU students and graduates have been shortlisted for the Batsford Prize 2024 – all from the MA in Children’s Book Illustration course. Charlotte Durance, Rose Grover, Fatima Ordinola Guerra, Aditi Anand, and Katie May are shortlisted in the Children’s Illustration category, while Naomi Tipping and Keiko are in the running for the Illustration award. Yu-An Xie has been shortlisted in both categories. The winners of the Batsford Prize will be announced on 29 May.
The Fossil Hunter spread
Bright Stars of Black British History spread
The Dream Book spread