New Lecturer Wins International Prize
Piet Grobler was presented with a Golden Apple award at the 2009 Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) awards.
The award was given in recognition of his illustrations in the book “Colors! Colores!”, written by the Mexican poet, Jorge Lujan. Lujan’s poems are short, simple and sensitive using colours as the uniting theme. In his illustrations, Piet uses an antelope to link the poems together.
He said: “My illustrations were much more minimal than my usual work. I tried to say as much as possible by using as little as possible.”
His work in the book also won the Alberto Burnichon Prize at the 2008/09 Cordoba Bookfair in Argentina.
He said: “I’m very happy to win the golden apple. It is the biggest and most important prize I have ever won. I was working in graphic design before I got into children’s picture book illustration. One of my friends bought me a copy of the BIB catalogue which gave me the desire to one day appear in it. I have previously won the third place prize in the BIB awards. My ambition is to now win the BIB Grand Prix award.”
Piet has just moved to Worcester having previously taught at Stellenbosch University and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, both in his native South Africa.
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