Biography
Niall Grant is an English Illustrator specialising in Art Nouveau & Golden Age storybook illustration. His work is a unique blend of those styles, with a visual focus on elegant, flowing shapes and intricate detail.
By producing artwork with this classic and timeless look, Grant is one of today’s go-to illustrators for special editions of popular books in Fantasy and Mythology genres.
Selected Clients
MUSIC
Jake Bugg (Universal Music)
Rush (Mercury Records)
Hozier (Island Records, Columbia Records)
Seven Lions (Ophelia Records)
Mayhem (Season Of Mist Records)
Sylvaine (Season Of Mist Records)
Genghis Tron (Relapse Records)
The Contortionist (Unchained Management)
Rolo Tomassi (MNRK Heavy)
A.A. Williams (Bella Union)
Tetrafusion (SONY RED)
Holy Fawn (Triple Crown Records)
Elder (Stickman Records)
PUBLISHING
Penguin Random House
Harper Collins
Orbit Books
Illumicrate
Daphne Press
Gollancz
Owlcrate
Fairyloot
The Bookish Box
Hyldr Zine
Little White Lies Magazine
Fiddler’s Green Magazine
Another Escape Magazine
Books
2024 “The Phoenix Keeper” by S.A. MacLean (Orbit Books)
Full Cover, 6 illustrations
2024 “The Longest Autumn” by Amy Avery (Owlcrate Special Edition)
Full Cover illustration & design
2024 “The Serpent & The Wings of Night” by Carissa Broadbent (Owlcrate Special Edition)
Hardcover illustration & design
2023 “To Kill a Shadow” by Katherine Quinn (Owlcrate Special Edition)
Hardcover illustration & design
2023 “Three Kings” by Freydis Moon (Rainbow Crate Special Edition)
Hardcover illustration & design
2023 “The Companion” by E.E. Ottoman (Rainbow Crate Special Edition)
Hardcover illustration & design
2023 “Lies We Sing to the Sea” by Sarah Underwood (Illumicrate Special Edition)
Dual endpaper illustrations
2023 “Silver Nitrate” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Illumicrate Special Edition)
Hardcover illustration & design
2022 "Language" Special Edition Lyric Book by The Contortionist
Layout & design, hard cover illustration, 12 internal illustrations, 10 motifs, endpapers
2022 "The Drowned Woods" by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Illumicrate Special Edition)
Hardcover design, reversible sleeve illustration
2022 "Artbook 事務局 - ANIMAL アニマル 2022 年度版'
2 illustrations, interview
2022 "The Bronze Serpent" by Amy Dyer
Full Cover, 5 illustrations
2021 "The Silver Bough" by Amy Dyer
Full Cover, 5 illustrations
2019 "The Golden Thread" by Amy Dyer
Full Cover, 4 illustrations
Exhibitions
2023 - The Endless Tale, Sapporo Tenjinyama Gallery, Hokkaido, JP
2022 - Salut, Gallery Nucleus, Portland, US
2022 - Animals 2022, Artbook Secretariat Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2019 - Void, Anteros Gallery, Norwich, UK
2017 - Botanica, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, US
2016 - The Other Art Fair, London, UK
2016 - That Which We Do Not Understand, Tatty Devine, London, UK
2016 - Illustrative Festival, Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany
2016 - Norwich Print Fair, Norwich, UK
2014 - Secret 7”, Mother, Shoreditch, London, UK
2013 - I&VC, P3, Baker Street, London, UK
2013 - See Fest, 7119 w. Sunset Blvd, LA, US
2013 - DRUMM #2, Queen Of Hoxton, Shoreditch, London, UK
2012 - Bad Teeth, Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London, UK
2011 - Halfway, Gallery West, Harrow, London, UK
2009 - Exchange, Design Centre Gallery, Nagoya, JP