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The City of Subiaco is proud to host the annual Shaun Tan Award for Young Artists.

The 2010 Shaun Tan Award for Young Artists is open to all school students aged between four and eighteen years in the Perth metropolitan area.

The aim of the award is to encourage creativity in the form of two-dimensional art works from Perth's school-aged students, and is a fantastic opportunity to acknowledge the artistic talents of school-aged children throughout the metropolitan area.

Entries will be accepted at the Subiaco Library from Thursday 15 April to Saturday 24 April 2010.

For more information, contact the Subiaco Library on 9381 5088 or library@subiaco.wa.gov.au.

Shaun Tan is an acclaimed artist and writer who grew up in Perth. He has won numerous awards for his unusual and thought-provoking illustrated books, such as The Red Tree, The Rabbits, The Lost Thing and The Arrival. His latest book, Tales from Outer Suburbia, a collection of short illustrated stories, has won a host of awards including a Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award, and was named one of the New York Times top ten illustrated books. Shaun has also worked as a concept artist on a number of animated films including Pixar’s WALL-E.

 

Subiaco Library has two impressive murals by Shaun Tan on display. The Tea Party features a riotous array of strange characters and landscapes, and The 100 Year Picnic is based on a photograph from the early 1900s found in the archives of the Subiaco Museum.

For more information about Shaun and his work you can visit www.shauntan.net.
 
The City of Subiaco would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of our patron Shaun Tan and our sponsors ProSubi, Red Griffin Art, Captured Ideas, Artshed and Wooldridges Educational Superstores.