2020 | Longlist | Exploration
- Was this project commissioned?
Un-commissioned - Agent
The Bright Agency - Personal Website or Portfolio Link
dongniweiart.com
- Instagram
instagram.com/dongni_wei/
- Biography
Dongni WEI is a Chinese illustrator and children’s picture books’ author, who is represented by the Bright Agency and is currently based in Beijing. Her first children’s picture book The Forest Dress-up Competition (2017) won the 1st Sunflower Picture Book Competition-Promising Award in 2016. Her work was recommended by the AOI and the Bookseller at 2019 Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
After 1.5-year study at Cambridge School of Art, bold and vibrant colours become her typical style. Her work oscillates between children’s book illustration and fine art, using imagination to reference and question her contemporary milieu. In her extraordinary stories, there always are some brave characters, through which she shows to early age children how to solve some problems. The technique she used arranges from mixed media to screen printing. She is interested in making stories based on voyage and return plots, architecture drawings inspired by her trips and doing artwork for charity organisations. Her clients include the Daylight Publishing House, Green Bean Publishing Company, CheerFly Publishing Company, Hui Art Space and Artron.Net.
- Where are you currently based?
Beijing, China - Where did you hear about the competition?
AOI comms
