Public Profile

ABOUT ASKA

• Aśka is an illustrator, artist and scientist, and
  has loved to draw since she was small. 
  Once a PhD candidate researching quantum optics, she turned her hand
  back to art with the goal of being a children’s book illustrator. 

  She has experience in graphic design and character
  illustration and had her numerous comics published in Perth and Melbourne.  She was also featured on an ABC TV
  documentary, Noise On Screen, along with 11 other young Australian artists.

  Graduating from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Arts in
  2011, she won a Curtin Gallery Grant to create works for an exhibition where
  she combined her passion for maths, science and art, called 13-Our Faith in
  Numbers. She also created a number of short animated films, and with a City of
  Perth grant she run Animators Hour, an independent animation festival
  showcasing local and international animation talent on the Northbridge Piazza
  Superscreen in 2012.

  Her professional work presenting science programs and
  workshops for Scitech across of the Western Australia reignited her passion for
  the story telling of science.  The March
  2017 launch of The Cosmic Adventures of Alice and Bob was Aśka’s first big
  illustration project. Written by Cristy Burne, it is a science comic book for
  children, sponsored by CAASTRO (Australia’s team of all-sky astronomers). 

  A further two of her illustrative projects have been
  published in 2017: Pepsi the Problem Puppy, by Sandi Parsons (Faraway Nearby
  Ink), and Looking Up by Sally Murphy (Fremantle Press); both fiction for young
  readers.  She won a Department of Culture
  and the Arts grant in 2017 from the State Government of Western Australia for
  the development of a picture book about dyslexia, written by Paul Russell, to
  be published in 2018.

  In all of her illustrations, Aśka loves to create energetic
  characters with a curious streak – the best type of friend to take on an
  adventure uncovering the wonderfully diverse and inspiring world around us.

  Aśka has a number of other author/ illustrator projects in
  the pipeline, so visit her website for their arrival!   www.askaillustration.com

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