Alice Lockhart is an illustrator based in London, creating expressive characters and immersive worlds for children and YA. Alice always works by hand, in pen, ink, and watercolour, drawing from observation, memory, and imagination. Alice loves drawing everything weird and wonderful, and her pictures are populated with various creatures and animals. Alice has worked with clients such as Bad Sheep Yarn, Black Spring Press and RDS, and has collaborated with the British Library; her work has also been longlisted for the Folio Society Book Illustration Competition.

Alice is currently available for freelance illustration work; please don't hesitate to get in touch at alicehopelockhart@gmail.com.

Exhibitions

Metafictions of Post-Post-Modernism, Hypha Studios, 2026

International Exhibition of Print, Royal Society of Printmakers, 2025

ABG Emerging, Alice Black Gallery, 2024

Whorl with Pulp Collective, Hypha studios, Stratford, 2024

And Now I’m Here, Space Studios Hackney, 2023

The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, 2023

Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, London, 2023

Awards

Folio Society book illustration competition, longlist, 2025

Cass Art Prize, 2023

Residencies

IIFA Teaching Residency, 2025

RDS printmaking residency, Dumfries house, 2025

Arteles, Back to basics, 2024

Moritz Heyman Residency, Borgo Pignano, Italy, 2023