Anne Spudvilas

Anne Spudvilas is a multi-award-winning illustrator of children's books and an established portrait painter, who also works as a courtroom artist for the Melbourne media.

Anne's portraits have been selected in major portrait competitions and she has completed public commissions for the City of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government and her work is in collections in Australia, USA, Europe and Asia.

Her first picture book The Race was awarded the Crichton Award for Illustration and CBCA (The Children's Book Council of Australia) Honour Book.

In 2000 she won the CBCA Picture Book of the Year with Jenny Angel, which was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award.

Woolvs in the Sitee won Honour Book in the CBCA Awards and Best Short Story in the Aurealis Awards 2007.

In 2008 The Peasant Prince won the NSW Premier's Award (Patricia Wrightson Prize), the Australian Book Industry Award for Younger Readers and was an Honour Book in the CBCA Awards.

Anne's designs were used by Australia Post for the 2006 Australian Christmas stamps.

Awards

2008

• CBCA Honour Book, NSW Premier's Awards, Patricia
• Wrightson Prize and Australian Book Industry Award for Younger Readers - The Peasant Prince

2007

• CBCA Honour Book - Woolvs in the Sitee
• Aurealis Award - Woolvs in the Sitee

2005

• Children's Book Council Book of the Year for Older
• Readers, The Silver Donkey

2002

• CBCA shortlisted book, In My Backyard

2000

• CBCA - Picture Book of the Year, Jenny Angel

1996

• Crichton Award for Illustration, CBCA Honor Book Award
• Certificate of Merit, Human Rights Award - for The Race

Guest Speaker - Children's Literature

• 2005: Ipswich Children's Literature Festival, Queensland
• 2004: Townsville Literature Festival, Queensland
• 2003: Thailand, Prem Center, Chiang Mai
• 2002: Perth, CBC 6th National Conference
• 2000: Canberra, CBC 5th National Conference
• 1999: Lithuania, American International School, Vilnius
• 1998: Vietnam, Hanoi International School & Toowoomba University of Southern Queensland Literature Seminar

Residencies

• 2008: Retreat Fellowship, Varuna Writers' Residence, Katoomba
• 2005: Retreat: May Gibbs Fellowship, Adelaide

School Visits

Anne enjoys holding drawing workshops with smaller groups of students, both primary and secondary - where together with students she works produce a drawing using charcoal.

Larger presentations can include a CD presentation on either Woolvs in the Sitee (Winner 2007 Aurealis Award) by Margaret Wild, or The Peasant Prince (winner of the 2008 NSW Premier's Award and AIBA Award) by Li Cunxin - where she explains the process of illustrating a picture book, describing the creation of a fluid visual narrative using roughs, storyboards, dummy books and various painting and drawing mediums.