The focus of the

Cheltenham Illustration Awards

has always been one of narrative. Visual storytelling, whether sequential or single image, gives scope to the imagination and opens up possibilities beyond the present moment.

This year the theme is:

Tales of the City

We run to the city to find fame and fortune, we run from the city to find peace and identity. Cities are made of steel and glass but also of cardboard; they create unity amongst people but also isolation; they are the crowning glories of man’s imagination but also of his greed.

There are lost cities, mythical cities, cities of the imagination, cities of the future... Make an illustration that tells a new (

true or fictional

) Tale of the City.

There are two main sections:

•

Student

•

Emerging and Established

The

Student

category is open to all full time students over 18 years of age worldwide. The

Emerging and Established

category is open to any newly practising illustrators who are wishing to gain exposure of their work and to those who are more established and are apart of the illustration world.

There is no entry fee

.