AFTER a one-year hiatus, when the London Transport Museum occupied its gallery with the momentous year-long Poster Girls exhibition, the prestigious Poster Prize for Illustration is back.

Poster Girls celebrated a century of women winning voting rights with a display of posters designed for the Underground by women and it proved to be one of the most successful ever held by the museum.

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This year’s competition theme London Stories drew 1,500 entries from around the world, with London is the Place for Me, a colourful interpretation of the Empire Windrush’s arrival at Tilbury Docks by Eliza Southwood, winning the top prize of £2,000.

Second prize and £1,000 went to Anna Steinberg for The Cokeney, while third prize and £750 was awarded to Mobb for The Faceless Woman.

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The 100 illustrations on show offer fascinating perspectives and insights into the capital’s cultural history and heritage, revealing the wealth of real and fictional tales and urban myths.

They embrace the quirky, amusing and bizarre as well as the day-to-day aspects of life in London in a hugely entertaining display. Highly engaging, they display an impressive grasp of composition, graphics and colour.

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The three award-winning designs will soon be seen as posters at Underground stations and visitors are encouraged to vote electronically at the exhibition for their “people’s choice,” with the winner to be announced in June.

The exhibition runs at the Exterion Media Gallery, London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, WC2 until July 14.
Entry tickets: ltmuseum.co.uk