Illustrators Portfolio Review
Arif Rafhan, Chloe Chang, Clémence Pollet, Darel Seow, 吴睿哲 (Jui-Che Wu), Priscilla Tey, Quek Hong Shin
The Illustrators Portfolio Review provides an opportunity for illustrators (emerging or practising) with an available body of work to book an exclusive, one-on-one consultation session with renowned illustrators and artists for feedback on their portfolio and receive tips on improving their techniques.
Registration for Illustrators Portfolio Review closes 8 May 2025.
Participating Illustrators
Arif Rahan
Preferred medium: Manual (ink/inkwash) and digital. Heavy influence from European graphic novels.
Darel Seow
Preferred medium: Digital art, with a focus on non-fiction books.
吴睿哲 (Jui-Che Wu)
Preferred medium: Collage, paper cutout, graphic design, experimental illustration. Focus on ways of storytelling other than linear narratives.
Quek Hong Shin
Preferred medium: Digital medium. Fond of including local scenes in illustrated stories.
Chloe Chang
Preferred medium: Digital illustration, with a focus on children's books.
Priscilla Tey
Preferred medium: Open to a variety of styles, ranging from watercolor and gouache to digital illustration.
Clémence Pollet
Preferred medium: Linocut, engraving
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Arif Rafhan (Malaysia)
Arif Rafhan is an award winning comic artist based in Kuala Lumpur. His work can be seen in more than 40 publications in Malaysia, Singapore & the US. His contribution includes Malaysia’s longest running humor magazine, Gila-Gila, and has been working under Lat for his latest graphic novel, Mat Som 2.
Arif is collaborating with RXP.KL for an immersive show, Hanya Batik, which showcases Malaysia’s rich history in animated batik format. Other clients include Sony Pictures, Hotlink & Grab.
Chloe Chang (Singapore)
Chloe Chang graduated from the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), Nanyang Technological University Singapore, with a degree in Digital Animation. She has worked in both television and print media as an illustrator and character designer. She now focuses on children’s book illustration and works with local and international publishers. In 2024, Chloe was awarded the inaugural Illustrator of the Year and also won the Crystal Kite award in the same year for her work in Windows to the World.
Clémence Pollet (France)
Clémence Pollet, born in Paris and grown up in Belgium, studied at the École Estienne (Paris) and the École des Arts Décoratifs (Strasbourg) before a stay as guest student in Bologna (Italy) which inspired her creative work. Collaborating with HongFei Editions since 2012, she has worked on important texts and figures of the Chinese culture including La Ballade de Mulan (2015) which won the Chen Bochui International Award in Shanghai, and The Life of Confucius (2018) available in French and Chinese languages.
Darel Seow (Singapore)
Darel Seow is a visual storyteller, educator and designer who illustrates the tales of the natural world through his unique brand of wry wit and whimsy. He believes in the draw of storytelling as a means of engagement, creating experiences that simultaneously excite and educate. His multi-disciplinary practice is centred on man’s changing relationship with nature, in which he explores learning through the power of storytelling, imagination and play. These come to life through his works spanning public art, interactive experiences and of course picture books, which tell and re-tell uniquely Singaporean stories.
吴睿哲 (Jui-Che Wu) (Taiwan)
吴睿哲，图像创作者，毕业于英国皇家艺术学院。用剪刀画图，偶尔写字，也做视觉设计。创作主轴围绕在诗、叙事与材质转译，并试图以书的形式探索更多说故事的可能。 出版作品有《跳舞就是做很多动作》、《有蚱蜢跳》、《A Horse, A Boat and An Apple Tree》与《Le Défilé》等。其中《Le Défilé》获伦敦切尔西艺术与设计学院与中央圣马汀艺术学院图书馆永久收藏，并登上日本杂志《BRUTUS》；下一本书还在前往的路上。曾获2024金鼎奖图书插画奖与2025金蝶奖金奖，入选波隆那插画展、葡萄牙ILUSTRARTE双年展等。
Jui-Che Wu is an image maker and graduate of the MA Visual Communication programme at the Royal College of Art (London), whose practice explores the interplay of poetry, storytelling and material translation. He blends the techniques of collaging and crafting with words, always mindful of the chosen medium's influence on the narrative.
His work has been featured at the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition (Italy) and the Ilustrarte Biennale (Portugal), and distributed in Taiwan and Portugal. His recent publications include Dancing is to Make Movements (Taipei: Sīlōo Story, 2024), A Grasshopper Hops (Taipei: Locus Publishing, 2023), A Horse, A Boat and An Apple Tree (Lisbon: Stolen Books, 2020), and Le Défilé (London: Self-published, 2019). He received the Golden Tripod Award in 2024, and is the first prize winner of the Golden Butterfly Award in 2025.
Priscilla Tey (Singapore)
Priscilla Tey is an award-winning illustrator, artist and author. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), she enjoys working with a variety of media from watercolour and gouache paintings, to digital illustrations and multimedia installations. Priscilla is internationally known for her books In-Between Things, Twitchy Witchy Itch and Counting in Dog Years (Candlewick Press), which have received praise from The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and The New York Public Library.
Quek Hong Shin (Singapore)
Quek Hong Shin is a children’s book author and illustrator. His picture books were twice nominated for the Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award and two have won Best Picture Book at the Singapore Book Awards - The Incredible Basket, which he wrote and illustrated, in 2019, and Grandma’s Tiger, written by Alan John and illustrated by Hong Shin, in 2023.
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