Peter Sheehan

Peter Sheehan A.P.D.G is a freelance story artist, illustrator and writer, based in Canberra, Australia. Versatile in style, Peter designs to fulfill the unique demands of each story - be it filmic or comic, literary or journalistic. He has some 25 books to his name and has been drawing professionally since 1982, most notably for the oldest children’s literary magazine in the world – The School Magazine. Some of the films Peter has boarded include Thirteen Lives, The Drover's Wife, Breath, Buoyancy, The Sapphires and Beneath Hill 60. Some of the animations he has helped design include, The Pink Panther, Top Cat, Berry Bees, Lexie and Lottie, F is for Family, and Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs. He was accredited as a designer by the Australian Production Design Guild in 2017. Peter has been awarded a Children's Book Council of Australia-Honour Book prize, an APDG Award for Drawing, a Stanley Award for Best General Illustrator, 3 FACTS Awards, 2 Art Directors and Writers Awards and has been nominated twice for a Walkley Award. His artwork is held in the collections of The Australian National War Memorial, the State Library of NSW and the Australian National Maritime Museum.