Gaye Chapman

Dr Gaye Chapman is a contemporary visual artist | painter of international standing, and is one of the foremost painters working in Australia. She exhibits in a cross-disciplinary context nationally and internationally and has been awarded many prestigious prizes for fine art, illustration and writing including multi-award-winning author | illustrator of globally published children’s books, published short stories and poetry and international collaborative projects with poets and dancers and industry.

Gaye’s work with progressive writers, along with her own writing, has established her as an innovator of contemporary picture books. She has more than 11 picture books (3 collaborative) to her name and hundreds of her illustrations and writings have been published in non-fiction books, and literary and other magazines. Her books have been translated into 4 languages, published in Iran, China, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the USA, distributed worldwide and multi-exhibited at international book fairs and literary festivals

Winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award, Gaye has been awarded a White Ravens Selection for Outstanding International Books for Children, 5 Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book Prizes, a Kirkus Star Award for Books of Remarkable Merit, a Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book Prize (collaborative) and a New Work Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. She and has been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award, the Northern Territory Literary Award Short Story prize, the CBCA Chrichton Award for Illustration, the Aurealis Award for Speculative Fiction, the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Prize (collaborative), and the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature (collaborative). Most recently her work has been Acquired into the collections of the State Library of New South Wales and the State Library of Victoria (collaborative).