Anna Crichton (born 1957) is a New Zealand illustrator, cartoonist and ceramicist. Her work has been published in ''

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Education

Crichton studied a Bachelor of Design at Wellington Polytechnic, graduating in 1981, although another source gives 1977 as her date of graduation.

Career

She started her career at the ''Dominion'', before working as art director for the ''

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'', 1981–1984. She then traveled internationally, working variously as an art director or contributor to ''Sawasdee'', ''Asian Advertising and Marketing,

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.'' Between 1993 and 1996, she was an illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist for ''

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''. In 1999, she described ''The Australian'' as "the most inspiring place I'd ever worked. I was surrounded by some pretty talented artists". Between 2003 and 2011, she taught 'media design/conceptual thought/typography/publication design/illustration/composition' at Auckland University of Technology and Unitec.

Awards

Crichton has won 5 Canon Media Awards for her work (from 2018, known as the Voyager Media Awards).

Personal life

Crichton has two children, Eva and Reuben. She describes herself as "an adventurer, a bargain hunter; as canny, lucky, bold and a risk taker".

References

External links

Search for work by Anna Crichton on DigitalNZ.
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