Picture by Kirsten van Niekerk
EXHIBITIONS
Picturehooks Festival of Illustration
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, 2021
The Illustrator's ExhibItion
Bologna Children's Book Fair, Bologna, 2020
MA Children's Book Illustration Degree Show
Candid Arts Trust, London, 2020
AOI World Illustration Awards
Somerset House, London, 2019
De Toekomstkalender
Villa Zebra, Rotterdam, 2019
Solo Expo Tijdduizelen
Duizel in het Park, Rotterdam, 2018
Oerol
Terschelling, 2018
The Window Show
Haarlemmerdijk, Amsterdam, 2018
Cross Comix
Schouwburg Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2017
Graduation Show
Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam ,2017
Unloop: Through The Wall
MONO, Rotterdam, 2017
BoekieBoekie Start Award
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna, 2017
EDUCATION
Master Children's Book Illustration
Cambridge School of Art, Cambridge
2018 - 2020
Bachelor Illustration
Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam
2013 - 2017
Preporatory course Art & Design
ArtEZ, Arnhem 2012 - 2013
Roozeboos, or Anne Roos Kleiss as you might know her in daily life, tries to look at the world with a childlike curiosity. Something that is reflected in her artist name, which was her nickname as a kid. Her work is playful, filled with color and tells stories even through its smallest details. She loves to capture the world around her in her sketchbook and this brings her inspiration from unexpected places.
In 2017 she graduated from a Bachelor in Illustration at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and in February 2020 she finished an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art.
Clients include Scholastic, Pelckmans, Blossom Books, Every Child a Reader, Villa Zebra, Child's Play, Der Passagier Magazine, Pearle, Loopvis,
Vers Beton, SKVR, Vrije Scholen Gemeenschap, Stichting de Vrolijkheid, Virale Bücherei, Linking Publishing, Tekman Publishing, KONGSI, Puik Design,
Duizel in het Park Festival and Oerol Festival.
Roozeboos mostly works on children's books, editorial illustrations, advertisement or spatial projects for which you can always contact her via annerooskleiss@gmail.com. But she is also open to think together about any other idea you might have!
Instagram: @roozeboos
Behance: @Roozeboos
For children's book inquiries in North America you can contact her agent Christy from the CAT Agency via christy@catagencyinc.com
NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
Winner
From Seed to Table competition 2020
Picture Hooks
Shortlist
Klaus Flugge Prize 2022
Finalist
Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition 2021
Higly Commended
MacMillan Prize for IIllustration 2021
Shortlist
AOI World Illustration Awards 2020
Category: Alternative Publishing
Second Prize
Templar Illustration and Design Awards 2020
Category: Fiction
Second Prize
Design a Book Jacket Competition 2020
Stratford Literary Festival
Selected for the Illustrators Exhibition 2020
Bologna Children's Book Fair
Highly Commended
AOI World Illustration Awards 2019
Category: Experimental
TEACHING AND WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
Leading weekly drawing workshops
Refugee Centre Rijswijk, Stichting de Vrolijkheid
2020 - 2021
Leading workshops at primary schools
SKVR & Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam
2021 - ongoing
Workshop Character Wonderland
International School The Hague
2021
Guest lecturer
Willem de Kooning, Illustration department
2020, 2021
Guest lecturer
ArtEZ, Illustration department
2022
Lecturer on Children's illustration
Thomas More Hogeschool, Rotterdam
2017