Anne spudvilas biography

Anne Spudvilas is an award-winning illustrator of children’s books and an established portrait painter who has also worked as a courtroom artist for the Melbourne media.

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

In 2000 she won CBCA Picture Book of the Year with Jenny Angel, which was also shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Award.
In 2008 The Peasant Prince won the NSW Premier's Award (Patricia Wrightson Prize), the Australian Book Industry Award for Younger Readers and the Queensland Premiers Award.

Anne's portraits have been selected in major portrait competitions including the Archibald and Doug Moran Prizes.  Her designs were used by Australia Post for the 2006 Australian Christmas stamps.

In recent years she has included printmaking in her practice with an emphasis on etchings and monoprints.

Her work is in collections in the State Library of Victoria, Picturebooks by award winning artist Anne Spudvilas PAZY