Aileen Crossley is an award winning illustrator and animator from Dublin.

Her stop motion sand animation ‘Wishing Well’ for Paul Hourican, won her two Irish Design Awards in 2019. In 2023 Aileen completed her two year Masters Degree in Illustration at Falmouth University with Distinction, and saw her debut authored and illustrated picturebook “Henny is Stuck” published by Little Door Books. Aileen is currently working on her second picturebook “Where the Tree Dogs Fly”. This will be her most ambitious work to date, made fully from lithographs at the Black Church Print Studio in Dubin’s Temple Bar.

Shortlisted – Illustration – IDI Awards 2023 (pending)
Winner – Best Short Animated Film – IDI Awards 2019
Winner – Emerging Designer Award – IDI Awards 2019
Finalist – Bologna Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition – 2019
Longlisted – Unpublished Picturebook Exhibition – 2021
Longlisted – Unpublished Picturebook Exhibition – 2020

Represented by Angharad Kowal Stannus at Kowal Stannus Agency
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