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the 1974 edition of Colin Thiele’s Storm
Boy Robert
Ingpen gave notice that he was to become a children’s
book illustrator of great distinction. His work
on this much-loved classic led to a long collaboration
with Thiele and his first award – The Visual
Arts Board Prize.
With his distinctive illustrative
style, he also became the first Australian to
win the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration
in 1986. No other Australian has achieved this
honour.
Robert Ingpen
began his artistic career as an agricultural
illustrator with the CSIRO. A passion for conservation
ensued and he spent time working with the United
Nations in Mexico and Peru in the 1970s designing
pamphlets to convey environmental concepts for
fisherman in those countries.
Other achievements
include the design of a series of stamps for
Australia Post and the Northern Territory flag.
A
prolific author as well as illustrator, Robert
Ingpen has published more than 100 fiction and
non-fiction titles for children and adults.
On 26
January 2007 Robert Ingpen was made a Member
of the Order of Australia with the citation:
' For
service to literature as an illustrator and author
of children's books, to art design and education,
and as a supporter of health care organisations.'
Awards:
Visual Arts Board Award 1974
Hans Christian Andersen
Medal 1986
Dromkeen Medal 1989
(A
selection)
- Storm
Boy,
written by Colin Thiele,
1974 edition.
- River Murray Mary ,
written by Colin Thiele, 1979. Commended
CBCA Book of the Year, 1980
- Out
of This World : the Complete
Book of Fantasy (1986) written
with Michael Page
- The Great Deeds of Superheroes,
written by Maurice Saxby, 1989
- The Great Deeds of
Heroic Women,
written by Maurice Saxby, 1990
- The
Poppykettle Papers,
written by Michael Lawrence, 1999
- In
the Wake of the Mary Celeste, written
by Gary Crew, 2004
- Mustara, written
by Rosanne Hawke, 2006
- Ziba
Came on a Boat, written by Liz
Lofthouse, 2007
Shortlisted CBCA Picture
Book of the Year, 2008
Illustrated
Classics
- Peter
Pan and Wendy, written by J.M. Barrie,
2004
- Treasure Island,
written by Robert Louis Stevenson, 2005
- The Jungle Book,
written by Rudyard Kipling, 2006.
- The Wind in the Willows,
written by Kenneth Graham, 2007
- A Christmas Carol, written
by Charles Dickens [forthcoming]
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(A
selection)
Robert Ingpen's papers donated
to the NLA
Additional References
- Atkinson, Frances. Ingpen
and paper [profile of Robert Ingpen]. The Age,
October 9 2005
- Pauli, Michelle.
Hooked
on classics [interview
with Robert Ingpen] Guardian, August
15, 2006
- McVitty, Walter, Authors & Illustrators
of Australian Children's Books
Hodder & Stoughton, 1989, p 101-3
ISBN 0 340 38742 4
- The Dromkeen Book
of Australian Children's Illustrators.
Compiled by Susan Scobie. Scholastic,
1997. p 33
ISBN 1 86388 695 8.
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