MACMILLAN PRIZE FOR ILLUSTRATION AWARDS 2023
BIOGRAPHY
Moira Millman is an illustrator originally from Plymouth, now living in Cambridgeshire with her husband and young son. She graduated from Cambridge School of Art in 2022 with a Masters Degree in Children’s Book illustration gaining a Merit.
After graduating with a degree in illustration from Maidstone College of Art, she moved to London where she freelanced for many years for editorial, advertising and publishing clients worldwide. A love for Mid Century design and illustration has always been a big influence on her work and her shelves groan under the weight of her collections!
A long held interest in picturebooks was reignited by the birth of her son and this led her to undertake the MA at Cambridge School of Art. Whilst on the course, she has developed her own playful picturebook texts and through these stories, she aims to encourage children to be creative and curious about the world around them.
Pencil and paper are her favourite materials and she combines her drawings with print textures and patterns to create bold graphic artwork in Photoshop. Colour has always been a strong feature of her illustration practice, and in her latest work she has enjoyed exploring the use of limited colour palettes to evoke a screenprinted technique.
When not at her desk she can be found rummaging at car boot sales for vintage treasures, watching technicolor movies and reading artist and musician biographies.
She also delivers illustration, printmaking and art workshops for children and has visited schools to show her work and set a creative activity for the students.
She is passionate about encouraging children to be creative and curious about the world around them and to develop their ideas and critical thinking skills.
AWARDS:
The Cheltenham Awards 2023 – Winner in the Emerging and Established Category for 5 illustrations from ‘The Trip in a Bottle’ for the theme of Interconnectivity. Featured work will be on display in Stroud and Cheltenham in 2024 and shown in the awards annual.
Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2023 Highly Commended for picturebook: ‘The Trip in a Bottle.’
dPictus Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 5 – The Trip in a Bottle https://dpictus.com/unpublished
dPictus Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 4 – Dotty’s Day of Wonder https://dpictus.com/unpublished
Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2022 Highly Commended for picturebook: ‘Dotty’s Day of Wonder.’
V&A Illustration Awards (1994) 2nd Prize in the Magazines Category for a set of 12 three dimensional illustrations created for the Marie Claire Horoscope Special Supplement. Selection of winning artworks exhibited at the V&A Museum.
Elle Talent Contest (1993) one of 12 winners of the competition judged by Sir Peter Blake to illustrate a horoscope, the winning illustration was made into greetings cards and sold in Paperchase.
Selected Clients: BBC Television, BBC Magazines, Cambridge University Press, Destination Weddings, Doubleday Broadway Publishing, Family Circle, Galison Mudpuppy, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Madame Figaro, Pearson Education, Penguin Books, Random House, Reader’s Digest, Shopsmart, Storey Publishing, Today’s Parent, Woman & Home, Women’s Weekly, You Magazine, Zoomer Magazine…
Here is a link to a BBC Television Title Sequence which I worked on at the start of my career. I created the large scale backdrops for the set and designed the 3 dimensional elements which were brought to life by modelmakers and a BBC production team.
Island Race (1995) | Ravensbourne University London
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