An image depicting Twitter as the “morality police” has scooped an illustration gong. Ann Kiernan won the top prize in the V&A Illustration Awards.
Her winning image was commissioned by Open Democracy to accompany Wael Eskandar’s article, entitled: “How Twitter is gagging Arabic users and acting as morality police.” The image symbolises “a Twitter update that has broken free from a pencil-drawn cage only to be shot down”.
Kiernan won the Moira Gemmill Illustrator Of The Year and the Illustrated Journalism Award 2020. The Book Cover Award went to Eva Eland for her debut picture book When Sadness Comes To Call.
The judges admired the “soft, non-threatening portrayal of sadness”. The Book Illustration Award recipient was Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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