Allison Colpoys
Allison Colpoys is an award-winning illustrator whose heartwarming illustrations appear in numerous books for young readers, including If All The World Were… by Joseph Coelho, and with author Davina Bell the bestselling All the Ways To Be Smart, The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella.
Allison combines digital and traditional mediums to tell emotive stories with her expressive use of colour and pattern. She has previously worked at Scribe Publications as a designer and art director, and Penguin Books Australia as a senior designer.
Along with numerous Australian Book Design Association awards for illustration and cover design, Allison has won the CBCA Crichton Award for Best New Talent and two Australian Book Industry Awards. She was one of 20 artists selected to create work for the Freedom Calendar, highlighting the injustices taking place on Manus Island, from which proceeds were donated to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.