Photo: Teresa Tan
About Me
I’m an illustrator and children’s book author based in Gadi/Sydney. I love connecting with people through stories, whether they be serious or silly!
My first picture book, entitled Quiet Time with My Seeya, was published by Roaring Brook Press in 2023 and is available to buy in book stores and online. Currently working on a second.
I also illustrate storyboards for animations. Check out a couple of my favourites – Alphabet Street for Disney and Gurangatch and Mirrigan for the Australian Museum.
I’m a creative resident in the Powerhouse Museum Creative Industries Program. From 2020–24 I ran Friends at Work Studio, a shared and subsidised work space for illustrators and visual creatives.
Contact
If you’d like to discuss a commission, please drop me a line at hello [at] dinalie.com and let’s see how we can work together.
Keep up with my current projects on Instagram (@_dinalie).
Children’s book agent (USA):
Christy Ewers The Cat Agency
Selected clients
Allen & Unwin • Atlassian • Australian Museum • City of Parramatta • Disney • Domain • Foxtel • Heritage Bank • Ink Project • Luna Park • Medibank • Macmillan • NSW Dept. of Education • Paper Moose • R/GA • Royal North Shore Hospital • RUOK • Scentre Group • Studio Gilay • Sumo Salad • Telstra • Walker Books • University of Technology Sydney
Awards & highlights
Quiet Time with My Seeya wins the CLEL BELL Award for PLAY
Panellist at the Georgetown Literary Festival 2023 (Penang, Malaysia)
Speaker at In Other Words at the 2023 OzAsia Festival (Tarndanya/Adelaide, Australia)
Industry mentor with the Scribble Books + LOST IN BOOKS Mirror Mentorship Program
Quiet Time with My Seeya is selected for Society of Illustrators 2023 Original Art Show (New York, United States)
Quiet Time with My Seeya receives starred reviews from respected trade journals Kirkus (US) and Publishers Weekly (US), and positive reviews from Books+Publishing (AU) and Booklist (US).
Winner of a 2021 SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrator Award
Alphabet Street wins Bronze for Best Children’s TV Series at the AEAF Awards 2020
Selected for Powerhouse Museum’s inaugural NSW Creative Industries Residency Program
The Book of Once (S3) is nominated for Best Children’s TV Series at the AEAF Awards 2019
Nominated for the Children’s Book Council of Australia 2016 Crichton Award for New Illustrators
The Cat with the Coloured Tail is shortlisted for the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award, longlisted for the 2016 Indie Books Awards Children’s Award, and shortlisted for 2016 Readings Children’s Book Prize
The Cat with the Coloured Tail is reviewed by Books + Publishing, Readings Books, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age (additionally ‘Short Review’ and ‘Pick of the Week’), Boomerang Books and The Australian
The Cat with the Coloured Tail is selected as one of the ‘Best Books of 2015’ by The Australian and by Readings Books