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NEIL PACKER – V&A ILLUSTRATION AWARDS 2024
We are delighted to celebrate the nomination of Neil Packer as one of eight illustrators shortlisted for this year’s V&A Illustration Award (Adult Fiction). This biennial competition is the UK’s most prestigious award; highlighting and championing artwork created for the UK market by artists from around the world and judged by a panel of leading, prominent industry experts.
A peripatetic childhood, living all over the world, allowed Neil to acquire inspiration far and wide, and growing up he was fascinated by illustrated books from the ‘50s and 60’s. The sum of these parts all contributed to his happy years at The Colchester College of Art, where for, the most part, he studied graphic design rather than illustration, which in his own words ‘turned out to be far more valuable’.
Forty years on Neil is a multi-award winning internationally acclaimed artist, who has worked for many of the world’s leading publishers including Walker Books, and notably The Folio Society, with an impressive array of titles including Catch 22, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and more recently The Complete Plays, put forward for the current V&A Award, to name but a few. For a bibliography of his Folio Society output, and a biographical interview please follow the links on this page.
All Artwork is available for purchase