BSFA Award for Best Artwork


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.
WWW bsfa.co.uk/BSFAAward.aspx

Winners

Best Artist/Artwork nominees

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
  • 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
  • Charlie Harbour – cover for Fun With Rainbows by Gareth Owens
  • Dominic Harman – cover for The Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Joey Hi-Fi -cover for Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
  • Ben Greene – A Deafened Plea for Peace, cover for Crossed Genres 21
  • Adam Tredowski – cover for Finch by Jeff VanderMeer

2011

  • Dominic Harman - cover for Ian Whates' The Noise Revealed
  • Jim Kay - cover and illustrations of Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls
  • Pedro Marques - cover for Lavie Tidhar's Osama
  • Anne Sudworth - cover for Liz Williams' ''A Glass of Shadow''

2012

  • Ben Baldwin - cover for Dark Currents
  • Blacksheep - cover for Adam Roberts' Jack Glass
  • Dominic Harman - cover for Eric Brown's Helix Wars
  • Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Simon Morden's Thy Kingdom Come
  • Si Scott - cover artwork for Chris Beckett's ''Dark Eden''

2013

  • Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Tony Ballantyne's Dream London
  • Kevin Tong - poster for Metropolis
  • Richard Wagner - ''The Angel at the Heart of the Rain''

2014

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2018

  • Ben Baldwin - wraparound cover for Strange Tales slipcase set
  • Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Paris Adrift by E.J. Swift
  • Sarah Anne Langton - cover for Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar
  • Sing Yun Lee & Morris Wild - artwork for Sublime Cognition conference
  • Likhain - “In the Vanishers’ Palace: Dragon I and II”
  • Bede Rogerson - cover for Concrete Faery by Elizabeth Priest
  • Del Samatar - artwork for Monster Portraits by Del Samatar & Sofia Samatar
  • Charlotte Stroomer - cover for Rosewater by Tade Thompson

2019

  • Aitch & Rachel Vale – cover for Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
  • Chris Baker (Fangorn) – cover for Wourism and Other Stories by Ian Whates
  • Julia Lloyd – cover for Fleet of Knives by Gareth L Powell
  • Charlotte Stroomer – cover for The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson
  • Richard Wagner – cover for Interzone 284

2020

  • Chris Baker (Fangorn) - covers for Robot Dreams series
  • Iain Clark - Shipbuilding Over the Clyde art for Glasgow 2024 WorldCon bid
  • Ruby Gloom - cover for Club Ded by Nikil Singh
  • Sinjin Li - cover for A Strange and Brilliant Light by Eli Lee
  • Nani Walker - ''Four Black Lives Matter Murals''

2021

  • Iain Clark - Glasgow Green Woman art for Glasgow 2024 WorldCon bid
  • Elena Betti - cover for Saving Shadows by Eugen Bacon
  • 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
  • Dan Dos Santos/Lauren Panepinto - cover of Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

2022

  • Alyssa Winans - Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
  • Vincent Sammy - Cover of ParSec 4, “The Hermit”
  • Miguel Co - Cover of Vida Cruz-Borja’s Song of the Mango and Other New Myths
  • Manzi Jackson - Cover of Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight ’s Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
  • Jay Johnstone - Cover of Lorraine Wilson’s The Way the Light Bends
  • Chris Baker (Fangorn) - Cover of Shoreline of Infinity 32

2023

  • Elena Betti - Cover of Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
  • Christine Kim - Cover of Jewel Box by E. Lily Yu
  • Vinayak Varma - Illustrations for Strung Along in Seaforth
  • Juliana Pinho - Cover art of The Alphabet of Pinaa: An AI Reinvents Zerself on an Inhabited Moon
  • Leo Nickolls - Cover of The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
  • Julia Lloyd - Cover of Descendent Machine by Gareth L. Powell