B.I.G.
Book Illustrators Gallery 2014
22 May - 15 June 2014, 10am – 9pm
NLB Central Library (B1)
The Book Illustrators Gallery (BIG) aims to showcase the works of local and regional illustrators and artists – across genres and borders – and promote them to a wider audience.
This year, the BIG received submissions from Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan; and will be displaying over 70 selected illustrations together with works by AFCC 2014 speakers – Budjette Tan, Frané Lessac, Il Sung Na, James Mayhew, Javier Zabala, Sandhya Prabhat.
Here are selected submissions from the 2014 open call.

Perez The Mouse
by Sandhya Prabhat
SinbadTheSailor
by Sandhya Prabhat
Outside the old theatre it had started to snow
by James Mayhew
Ready Steady Slow
by Sandhya Prabhat
They held hands and danced
by James Mayhew
The Dimsum Dollies
by Sandhya Prabhat
We're surrounded by Mice
by James Mayhew
The Escaped Panda
by Sandhya Prabhat
The Most Special Travel
by Bagel Chien 貝果
Summer Good Days
by Bagel Chien 貝果
Jaguar to the Street
by Bei Lynn
Conversation in the Dream
by Chang Liu
Huge Waves Flooding the Town
by Chang Liu
Where Is the Tricycle
by Chien-Hung Liao
Wonderful Afternoon Tea
by Chien-Hung Liao
The Antique Market
by Chih-Chung Chang
The Atayal Revolt against the Japanese Ruler
by Chih-Chung Chang
Dinnertime
by Frané Lessac
Midnight Run
by Etan Pavavalung
The Formosan Wild Boar
by Etan Pavavalung
Shoeless Dahlan
by Eugenia Gina
Ups!
by Evelyn Ghozalli
Be Brave
by Evelyn Ghozalli
A Book of Babies cover
by Il Sung Na
Northern Gusts Carry the Rattle of Army Pot
by Gao Cai
Messylox empties the trash
by Gay McKinnon
The Old Scavenger and Her Dog
by Hsin Yi Fu
The Wounded Blacky In a Sack
by Hsin Yi Fu
Whose Stop Is This
by Hsukung Liu
The town
by Javier Zabala
The Kid
by Javier Zabala
Building nests
by Javier Zabala
What the other birds do...
by Javier Zabala
Freedom
by Javier Zabala
Katie and the Starry Night
by James Mayhew
Perhaps they want to play...
by James Mayhew
Fuxing Market
by I-jin Chen
Jesse's Chores
by Frané Lessac
Freedom
by Jian Xin Zhou
Follow me home
by Jian Xin Zhou
Hi!
by Jian Xin Zhou
Mean Girls
by Juan Nathaniel Jonathan G. Rañola III
The Storyteller
by Juan Nathaniel Jonathan G. Rañola III
Welcome to our dinner party
by Sun Hsin-Yu (Joyce)
One day in Beijing
by Sun Hsin-Yu (Joyce)
One day in Beijing
by Sun Hsin-Yu (Joyce)
Stone Carving Gallery
by Jun Hwa Chen
The Door Gods
by Jun Hwa Chen
The Holy Animals
by Jun_Hwa Chen
Leatherback Turtle
by Lavanya Karthik
Pounding Chillies with Grandma
by Lay Koon Lim
Marshal Law Declared
by Ling Hsing Huang
Mountain Journey to the Wedding Ceremony
by Ling Hsing Huang
The Way to Find Food
by Li-Ya Chen
We help the baby turtles to escape to the ocean
by Meng-ting Wang
Midnight
by Frané Lessac
The Child Laborers
by Min Jie Chen
On Board an Aircraft
by Min Jie Chen
The Old Buffalo Is Going To War
by Min Jie Chen
Lakshmi and Sundari – An unusual pair of twins
by Nayantara Surendranath
Princess Lea - The Life Story of Lea Salonga
by Nicole Lim
A New Start
by Oscar Tsai
The big mouse shouts at the boy
by Oscar Tsai
Secret 4- Nothing there!
by Peiyin Shih
The Wharf
by Pei Hsiu Chen
Share don't want to share
by Po Ting Lin
The Juggler
by Prabha Mallya
Tea with the Tragopan
by Prabha Mallya
The blue river
by Priya Kuriyan
The night before
by Priya Kuriyan
Gliding Through the Lake
by Deng Qi Zheng
The great prairie
by R.S. Vern
It's so dark! And two bright eyes! What is it
by Rayika Sen
Beginning of an Adventure
by Ru Guey Liou
Shrink
by Rui Cheng Chen
A Fantasy Trip
by Rui Cheng Chen
The little Hunter
by Rui Cheng Chen
A larger-than-usual shadow
by Sadhvi Jawa
Once a while, Sunny would think of her Yellow Dad
by Shuhui Wang
Wake Up Sebbie
by Soefara Jafney
A Wednesday Bazaar
by Sonal Gupta
Some have lots of brothers and sisters
by Il Sung Na
Some can walk straight away
by Il Sung Na
Some are carried in their daddy’s pouch
by Il Sung Na
While some are born with scales
by Il Sung Na
Purple sign navigates the way home
by Sue Hooi Yoong
Purple sign navigates the way home
by Sue Hooi Yoong
T3 mistaken for Goddess of Iron!
by Tanvi Bhat
T4 is a peacock!
by Tanvi Bhat
The Fox and the Crow cover
by Culpeo S. Fox
Incredible Archer
by Tom Liu
Great Kung Fu Master
by Tom Liu
TRESE A
by Kajo Baldisimo
TRESE B
by Kajo Baldisimo
TRESE C
by Kajo Baldisimo
TRESE D
by Kajo Baldisimo
TRESE E
by Kajo Baldisimo
Awi yang Jatuh
by Tri Khalidya
Awi di Hutan Bambu
by Tri Khalidya
Trust Bonds Horse and Rider
by Frané Lessac
Blacky is in the Zoo
by Wan Wan
Bustling Zoo
by Wan Wan
Happy Birthday
by Wen Tzu Chen
Mystic shopping street
by Wen Tzu Chen
Mr White painting the tree
by Yiting Lee
The Snow Queen
by Yu-Wei Liang