Gérard DuBois becomes the overall 2022 winner at this year's V&A Illustration Awards for his work with The Folio Society
Gérard DuBois has won in the Book Illustration category and has been awarded the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize for his work on The Folio Society's edition of The Road at this year's V&A Illustration Awards. Judge Posy Simmonds described DuBois's stunning illustrations as ‘magnificent, rich, poignant and melancholic’.
The Road illustrated by Gérard DuBois
Lela Harris has also been recognised for her work on The Folio Society's edition of The Color Purple, becoming a runner-up in the Book Cover category.
Raquel Leis Allion, Art Director at The Folio Society, said: ‘I am over the moon for Gérard, it was such a pleasure to work with him and to be a part of his creative process. I love how he portrays the father and son so beautifully and still manages to illustrate the darkness of Cormac McCarthy’s words. This work, alongside Lela’s book cover design for The Color Purple, showcases Folio’s incredible and talented illustrators.’
Raquel Leis Allion, Art Director at The Folio Society, said: ‘I am over the moon for Gérard, it was such a pleasure to work with him and to be a part of his creative process. I love how he portrays the father and son so beautifully and still manages to illustrate the darkness of Cormac McCarthy’s words. This work, alongside Lela’s book cover design for The Color Purple, showcases Folio’s incredible and talented illustrators.’
The winner of each category receives £3,000 and the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize winner also wins £5000. The runner-up in each category will be included in the V&A's display alongside the winning entry.
Previous Folio illustrators honoured at the V&A Illustration Awards include: John Vernon Lord, winner of the Book Illustration Award and Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year in 2018 for Ulysses; David McConochie for Best Book Cover and winner of the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year prize in 2016 for The Folio Book of Ghost Stories; Sterling Hundley, winner of the Book Illustration Award and Overall Winner in 2015 for Treasure Island; Anne-Marie Jones, winner of the Book Cover Award for Sons and Lovers in 2014; Anna and Elena Balbusso, winners of the Book Illustration Award for Eugene Onegin in 2013; Matthew Richardson, winner of the Book Cover Award with The Outsider in 2012; Tom Burns, winner of the Book Illustration Award and Overall Winner in 2009 for The New York Trilogy.