BSFA Award for Best Artwork Awarded for The best science fiction or fantasy artwork published in the previous calendar year Country UK Presented by British Science Fiction Association First awarded 1980 Currently held by Leo Nickolls for cover of The Surviving Sky Website BSFA Awards
The BSFA Awards are given every year by the British Science Fiction Association . The BSFA Award for Best Artwork is open to any artwork with speculative themes that first appeared in the previous year. Provided the artwork hasn't been published before it doesn't matter where it appears. The ceremonies are named after the year that the eligible works were published, despite the awards being given out in the next year.
Prior to 1986 the award was presented for best artist, rather than artwork. Jim Burns won three of the seven Best Artist awards. He went on to win eleven Best Artwork awards.
Winners
1979
1980
Peter Jones
Brian Bolland
Carlos Ezquerra
Peter Goodfellow
Chris Moore
Tim White
1981
Bruce Pennington
Chris Achilleos
Pete Lyon
Chris Moore
Tim White
1982
Tim White
Peter Goodfellow
Peter Jones
Bruce Pennington
1983
Bruce Pennington
Peter Jones
Ian Miller
Tim White
1984
Jim Burns
Peter Jones
Ian Miller
Bruce Pennington
Tim White
1985
Jim Burns
Peter Jones
Rodney Matthews
Ian Miller
Tim White ...
2009
Nitzan Klamer - alternate cover for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Stephen Martinière - cover for Desolation Road by Ian McDonald (Pyr)
Stephanie Pui-Min Law - Emerald
Adam Tredowski - cover for Interzone 220
Adam Tredowski - cover for Interzone 224
Adam Tredowski - cover for Interzone 225
2010
Andy Bigwood – cover for Conflicts (Newcon Press)
Charlie Harbour – cover for Fun With Rainbows by Gareth Owens (Immersion Press)
Dominic Harman – cover for The Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Gollancz)
Joey Hi-Fi -cover for Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
Ben Greene – A Deafened Plea for Peace , cover for Crossed Genres 21
Adam Tredowski – cover for Finch by Jeff VanderMeer (Corvus)
2011
Dominic Harman - cover for Ian Whates' The Noise Revealed (Solaris)
Jim Kay - cover and illustrations of Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls (Walker)
Pedro Marques - cover for Lavie Tidhar's Osama (PS Publishing)
Anne Sudworth - cover for Liz Williams' A Glass of Shadow (Newcon Press)
2012
Ben Baldwin - cover for Dark Currents (Newcon Press)
Blacksheep - cover for Adam Roberts' Jack Glass (Gollancz)
Dominic Harman - cover for Eric Brown's Helix Wars (Rebellion)
Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Simon Morden's Thy Kingdom Come (Jurassic London)
Si Scott - cover artwork for Chris Beckett's Dark Eden (Corvus)
2013
Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Tony Ballantyne's Dream London (Solaris)
Kevin Tong - poster for Metropolis (tragicsunshine.com)
Richard Wagner - The Angel at the Heart of the Rain (Interzone #246)
2014
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2018
Ben Baldwin - wraparound cover for Strange Tales slipcase set (NewCon Press)
Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Paris Adrift by E.J. Swift (Solaris)
Sarah Anne Langton - cover for Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
Sing Yun Lee & Morris Wild - artwork for Sublime Cognition conference (London Science Fiction Research Community)
Likhain - “In the Vanishers’ Palace: Dragon I and II” (Inprnt)
Bede Rogerson - cover for Concrete Faery by Elizabeth Priest (Luna Press)
Del Samatar - artwork for Monster Portraits by Del Samatar & Sofia Samatar (Rose Metal)
Charlotte Stroomer - cover for Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Orbit Books )
2019
Aitch & Rachel Vale – cover for Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (UK edition) (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Chris Baker (Fangorn) – cover for Wourism and Other Stories by Ian Whates (Luna Press)Julia Lloyd – cover for Fleet of Knives by Gareth L Powell (Titan Books )
Charlotte Stroomer – cover for The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson (Orbit Books )
Richard Wagner – cover for Interzone 284
2020
Chris Baker (Fangorn) - covers for Robot Dreams series (NewCon Press)Iain Clark - Shipbuilding Over the Clyde art for Glasgow 2024 WorldCon bid
Ruby Gloom - cover for Club Ded by Nikil Singh (Luna Press)
Sinjin Li - cover for A Strange and Brilliant Light by Eli Lee (Jo Fletcher Books)
Nani Walker - Four Black Lives Matter Murals (Los Angeles Times)
2021
Iain Clark - Glasgow Green Woman art for Glasgow 2024 WorldCon bid
Elena Betti - cover for Saving Shadows by Eugen Bacon (NewCon Press)
Maria Spada - cover of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Peter Lo/Kara Walker - cover of Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon (Transit Lounge Publishing)
Dan Dos Santos/Lauren Panepinto - cover of Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Orbit)
2022
Alyssa Winans - Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
Vincent Sammy - Cover of ParSec 4, “The Hermit”
Miguel Co - Cover of Vida Cruz-Borja’s Song of the Mango and Other New Myths (Ateneo De Manila UP)
Manzi Jackson - Cover of Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (ed.)’s Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Macmillan)
Jay Johnstone - Cover of Lorraine Wilson’s The Way the Light Bends (Luna Press Publishing)
Chris Baker (Fangorn) - Cover of Shoreline of Infinity 32
2023
Elena Betti - Cover of Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon (Apex)
Christine Kim - Cover of Jewel Box by E. Lily Yu (Erewhon Books)
Vinayak Varma - Illustrations for Strung Along in Seaforth (Interzone 295)
Juliana Pinho - Cover art of The Alphabet of Pinaa: An AI Reinvents Zerself on an Inhabited Moon (Interzone Digital)
Leo Nickolls - Cover of The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao (Titan Books )
Julia Lloyd - Cover of Descendent Machine by Gareth L. Powell (Titan Books )
External links
References
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^ Matrix issue 59 (June/July 1985) pp4-6
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^ Matrix issue 70 (June/July 1987) p4
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^ Matrix issue 162 (July/August 2003) p4
^ Matrix issue 167 (May/June 2004) p4
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^ Matrix issue 184 (2007) p5
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