Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and brought up in Towyn, North Wales, Steadman attended Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan , Abergele, East Ham Technical College and the London College of Printing during the 1960s, doing freelance work for Punch, Private Eye, the Daily Telegraph, The New York Times and Rolling Stone during this time.
(Ralph Steadman photo #2)
Steadman currently lives with his wife in Kent, England.
(Ralph Steadman photo #3)
Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures and cartoons and also for illustrating a number of picture works. Prizes that he has won for his work include the Francis Williams Book Illustration Prize for Alice in Wonderland, the American Society of Illustrators' Certificate of Merit, the W H Smith Illustration Prize for I Leonardo, the Dutch Silver Paintbrush Prize for Inspector Mouse, the Italian Critica in Erba Prize for That's My Father, the BBC Design Prize for postage stamps, the Black Humour Prize in France, and several Designers and Art Directors Association Prizes. He was voted Artist of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1979.
Ralph Steadman
