tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20736891911053757432024-03-12T21:35:58.384-07:00The Bird Kingnews and works in progress from Shaun Tanshauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.comBlogger562125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-9431187002157856062020-10-14T19:24:00.002-07:002020-10-14T19:24:54.416-07:00New website and blog<p> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IUNptD9MHH0/X4exw2TWPbI/AAAAAAAACUU/0xo4_87vnmQgaVUFYfsLwrvoHIqAgZPwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s709/hobonichi%2Bdrawing_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="709" height="462" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IUNptD9MHH0/X4exw2TWPbI/AAAAAAAACUU/0xo4_87vnmQgaVUFYfsLwrvoHIqAgZPwQCLcBGAsYHQ/w491-h462/hobonichi%2Bdrawing_s.jpg" width="491" /></a></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #666666;">Hi folks, just letting you know that I'll be moving my blog to my refurbished website, www.shauntan.net and no longer posting here, although this will remain an accessible archive for work pre-2020. You can also follow any news on Instagram @shauncytan</span></span></span><br /></p>shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-14882682317871871292019-01-23T20:44:00.000-08:002019-01-23T20:44:31.975-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A new exhibition featuring a cross-section of illustration from the past 20 years at Beinart Gallery in Melbourne. For more info:</span> <a href="https://beinart.org/shaun-tan-untold-tales/">https://beinart.org/shaun-tan-untold-tales/</a>shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-615753275501948122018-12-13T17:01:00.001-08:002018-12-13T17:01:21.033-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-70643561487307465622018-09-27T22:05:00.000-07:002018-09-27T22:06:30.259-07:00TALES FROM THE INNER CITY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Tales from the Inner City,</i> available from late September / early October 2018 in Australia (Allen & Unwin), United States (Arthur A Levine Books), UK (Walker Studio), Canada (Tundra/Penguin Random House), The Netherlands (Querido), and very soon to be released in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Taiwan, China, Poland and other territories. Huge, huge thanks to all publishers, translators, agents, booksellers and readers for your ongoing support and encouragement throughout the year.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">From CICADA, published by Hachette July 2018 (Australia), coming soon in the UK, US and other languages: Danish, Swedish, Chinese, French, Norwegian, Italian, Polish, Czech, Dutch, German... the words may be different, but we all know the workplace.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">More notes about the making of this book are now available on my website (under Picture Books). Many thanks from readers who have so enthusiastically embraced – and identified with – the plight of this little bug, a character I've been drawing and sculpting on and off for the past decade. </span></span>shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-57620877314834525592018-05-28T19:20:00.000-07:002018-05-28T19:20:21.223-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-61113102771706070512018-04-15T16:59:00.001-07:002018-04-15T16:59:05.606-07:00FOUND THINGS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have an exhibition of Lost Thing art running through May at Beinart Gallery, Brunswick Melbourne, which marks 20 years since I first sat down and began drawing and writing the rambling tale that eventually became the book and film. The show includes a selection of some of my favourite working drawings, storyboard sketches and new lost thing art, from 1998 to 2018. You can find out more about it here: <a href="https://beinart.org/shaun-tan-solo-exhibition-lost-found/">https://beinart.org/shaun-tan-solo-exhibition-lost-found/</a></span></span>shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-53167902617658899962018-03-05T18:45:00.000-08:002018-03-05T18:45:05.685-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-44265116386510397142018-01-22T14:50:00.000-08:002018-01-22T14:50:10.690-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-66479514762962651112018-01-17T19:59:00.000-08:002018-01-17T20:02:01.494-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">You can also now follow me on Instagram @shauncytan</span></span>shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-68900496744361072622018-01-11T04:31:00.000-08:002018-01-11T04:31:18.301-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-61946663363590708392017-12-19T23:54:00.000-08:002017-12-19T23:54:21.787-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-85437951310765533732017-12-14T05:01:00.000-08:002017-12-14T05:01:44.683-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-832854040245462302017-11-28T00:33:00.000-08:002017-11-28T00:33:28.974-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-91101184006123517532017-11-25T16:37:00.002-08:002017-11-25T16:37:22.511-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-3921799099974189832017-11-23T17:10:00.001-08:002017-11-23T17:10:08.962-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i>People waiting at a tram stop,</i> oil on board 20 x 15cm</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last weekend to see RADIUS at Tinning Street Presents before the works come down. Many thanks to all those who have visited and for the terrific feedback, it's been a pleasure to share this long study of the local neighbourhood with you.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span>shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-73965294435127607862017-11-21T05:06:00.000-08:002017-11-21T05:06:50.940-08:00Tales from the Inner City<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i>Moonfish (detail)</i> oil on canvas, 150 x 100cm</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">A new collection of illustrated short stories will be published by Allen & Unwin in October 2018, similar in style to <i>Tales from Outer Suburbia</i> (2008), about the fraught relationship between humans and animals. I've been working on this project over the past five years and it's great to see it finally come together. I'll post more about it in the lead-up to its release.</span></span>shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-17111026089214882472017-11-19T20:09:00.000-08:002017-11-19T20:09:23.829-08:00First Editions Re-covered: Sotheby's, London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i>Some animals are more equal than others</i>, Oil-painted resin sculpture with a re-jacketed first edition copy of <i>Animal Farm</i> by George Orwell (1945). 2017, approx. 40cm high.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">Detail: <i>piggy bank</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i>Detail: Animal Farm dust-cover</i>, acyrlic, pencil and ink on paper</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b>First Editions Re-covered</b> is a collection of unique first editions with original dust-jackets created by leading artists and designers. Artists chose a book they felt a strong connection to and then created a new jacket or artwork in response to it. The end result is 33 wonderful lots which will be auctioned to benefit House of Illustration.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br />House of Illustration is the world’s only public gallery solely dedicated to illustration and graphic arts. It is the only UK gallery commissioning new illustration work for public display and runs the only residency for illustrators and graphic artists. House of Illustration is a registered charity receiving no public funding and rely on fundraising to raise over 40% of our income each year. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br />The books and their beautiful new covers will be on public display at Sotheby’s in London from Friday 8 December until the auction on Monday 11 December. They will be displayed on Sotheby’s website (sothebys.com) and our website (houseofillustration.org.uk) from 10 November, and the printed auction catalogue will be available soon afterwards. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">To see the works:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1065185394"><br /></a></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/english-literature-l17408.html">http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/english-literature-l17408.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><i>Some animals are more equal than others</i></b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">My own choice was Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945), a book that has had an immense influence on my imagination as a writer and illustrator. To refresh, it tells the story of Manor farm, where the animals revolt and take over, only to come undone by their own internal politics. One pig in particular, the cunning Napoleon, proves wonderfully adept and dividing the group, fermenting fear, blaming foreigners and revising historical facts. Sound familiar? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">When House of Illustration located a rare first edition and sent to to me, I was amazed at how small and unassuming it was, a tiny book bound in green cloth. Small enough, I thought, to not only fit inside a dust-jacket, but a sculptural shrine of some sort. The idea of a piggy-bank for a valuable book came almost immediately, and then raised the question: what makes a book – essentially worthless printed paper – so valuable? Of course, it's the quiet truth it radiates, the very ability to undermine questions of value. Here is the statement written on the inner jacket about why this book is important to me (transcript below):</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i></i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I first came
across Animal Farm by accident: our mother read it to my brother and I, then
about 7 and 8(!), thinking it was just another children’s book. She wanted to
stop, but we begged her to continue, all the way to the bleak and strange
ending. What was it about? As kids, the answer was clear: schoolyard politics
in suburban West Australian. Animal Farm remains the book with the deepest
subconscious influence on my own work as a storyteller, the absurd fantasy that
tells us basic truths about human nature, regardless of time, place or
political colour.</span></i></span></span><br />
<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-83504181826248061552017-11-19T15:38:00.001-08:002017-11-19T15:38:27.410-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i>Blue milk carton</i>, oil 20 x 15cm</span></td></tr>
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shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-51949881026005564702017-11-18T23:30:00.000-08:002017-11-18T23:30:48.728-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-75210825881340144332017-11-15T23:42:00.002-08:002017-11-15T23:42:35.884-08:00CICADA - an office story<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">Cover illustration for <i>Cicada</i>, work in progress, 2017. Oil and acrylic on paper, approx 50 x 70cm.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Yes, a new picture book in the works: <i>Cicada</i>, the story of a hard-working corporate bug. Coming 2018; keep your compound eyes alert! I'll post more developmental work in coming months.</span></span><br />
<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-47258047406921472322017-11-12T21:23:00.002-08:002017-11-12T21:23:51.121-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i>Two chairs mating in a street</i>, oil 20 x 15cm</span></td></tr>
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-49497569311046677042017-11-09T04:23:00.001-08:002017-11-09T13:25:42.173-08:00RADIUS online catalogue live<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">From today you can now view all the works in <i>Radius</i> online, especially if you can't make it to Tinning Street Presents in Brunswick. Thanks to Emma Michaelis for the toil; to Zoe, Briana and Alex for installation assistance this week, and Matt Stanton for photography; <a href="http://www.tinningstreetpresents.com/shaun-tan---radius.html" target="_blank">enjoy the catalogue.</a></span></span>shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-24553613450690700052017-11-08T18:10:00.002-08:002017-11-08T18:10:52.213-08:00If you happen to be in Sweden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Poster for an exhibition of original illustrations in Sigtuna, the oldest town in Sweden, at Konsthall M<span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ärsta</span>, November 25 to February 17. It includes work from <i>The Lost Thing</i>, <i>Rules of Summer</i> and <i>The Arrival</i> and other books, as well as some unseen and unpublished works. More about this exhibition here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/144437742854348/">https://www.facebook.com/events/144437742854348/</a></span></span></span><br />
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<br />shauntanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05392295581878365018noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073689191105375743.post-91856119526058266102017-11-07T15:22:00.000-08:002017-11-07T15:22:33.513-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i>After hours (yellow bollards)</i>, oil 20 x 15cm</span></td></tr>
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