Anne Spudvilas Anne Spudvilas i(A54066 works by)
Born: Established: 1951 Heyfield, Heyfield - Rosedale area, Central Gippsland, Gippsland, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Spudvilas grew up in Camperdown, Victoria. She left school at 16 and worked at the local newspaper where she learned graphic design. She trained in advertising layout during her employment in an advertising agency. She studied Fine Arts and exhibited in group and solo exhibitions. She has been one of Australia's most prolific and successful cover illustrators.

Spudvilas works mainly in oils and coloured inks. She was a finalist in the Portia Geach Portrait Prize (1995), the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, and her portrait of children's illustrator and author, Leigh Hobbs, was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. She has also worked as a courtroom artist with the Melbourne media.

In 2000, she was illustrator in Residence at Charleville, Queensland and in 2002, was a May Gibbs Literature Trust Fellow in Adelaide. Spudvilas travelled to China with Li Cunxin and studied Chinese painting in preparation for illustrating The Peasant Prince.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Swan Lake Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 2017 11531110 2017 single work children's fiction children's

'The iconic ballet Swan Lake, the tragic love story of a princess transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer, has been revered for more than a century. In this atmospheric adaptation, one of Australia's most talented visual artists reimagines the classic tale of passion, betrayal and heartbreak in the dramatic riverscape of the Murray-Darling.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Children’s Book Award
2018 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Picture Book of the Year
2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Picture Book of the Year
y separately published work icon Swan Lake Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 2017 11531110 2017 single work children's fiction children's

'The iconic ballet Swan Lake, the tragic love story of a princess transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer, has been revered for more than a century. In this atmospheric adaptation, one of Australia's most talented visual artists reimagines the classic tale of passion, betrayal and heartbreak in the dramatic riverscape of the Murray-Darling.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Children’s Book Award
2018 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Picture Book of the Year
2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Picture Book of the Year
y separately published work icon Where's Jessie? Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2015 8702731 2015 single work picture book children's

'Bertie Bear was going on a long journey. He didn’t realise it would be on a camel! And he never imagined he would be having adventures on his own, far away from Jessie.

'Bertie sets off with his family to head out into the Outback. He is packed into a box to travel with the cameleers as he won’t fit on the horse-drawn cart with the family (and young Jessie, his owner). But Bertie doesn’t understand where his family has gone. ‘Where’s Jessie?’ is the refrain that runs through the book, as Bertie bumps along on the camel, then falls off unnoticed. Bertie has adventures with the kind cameleers, and meeting desert animals before he is swept along in a flash flood, gets taken high in an eagle’s talons, and finally falls to the ground, left all alone. Luckily, a young Indigenous boy finds him and returns him to Jessie: a happy ending!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2016 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Picture Book
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