Shaun Tan Award for Young Artists
The City of Subiaco presents the seventeenth annual Shaun Tan Award for Young Artists. This visual art award is open to Western Australian school students and encourages imagination, innovation and creativity.
Congratulations to all entrants in the 2019 Shaun Tan Award for Young Artists. We had a huge response with over 1300 entres this year. Thank you to all who participated.
Congratulations to this year's exhibited young artists, see the list below to see if your artwork will be on display. The top ten artworks from each category form the 2019 Shaun Tan Exhibition which will be on display at Subiaco Library from Tuesday 9 July to Sunday 4 August.
Finalists, which consist of the top three entrants in each category, will be contacted separately and invited to a presentation ceremony at Subiaco Library, winners will be announced soon after.
Artists will be contacted via email with more information on collecting their entries. A certificate of participation is available for every entrant when they collect their artworks or can be downloaded here.
2019 Exhibited Artworks
Lower Primary category (school years one and two)
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Catherine Ru Xin Zhou
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Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
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Renee Yan Ni Zhen
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Cute Kookaburras
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Samuel Zi Tao
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123 Toucans
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Kendylle Green
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The last flower
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Ellen Karakatsanakis
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Self Portrait
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Jett Herbert
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#HipsterLlama
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Jade Coppolina
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The Pot Monster
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Enze Zhang
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Little fish are getting eaten
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Amy Xinran Li
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Self Portrait
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Ella Boyne
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Cat playing the piano
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Middle Primary category (school years three and four)
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Isabella Fan Jin
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Jieremy my little brother
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Sophie Dean
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Fantastical Flamingo
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Jayden Gosling
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Untitled
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Bill Gao
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The Farmer's Holiday
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Samantha Yang
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A Mythical Maze
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Matilda Shen
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Portrait of Maxim
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Abby Hermann
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Hidden
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Hannah Chen
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Motionless
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Kobe Wu
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Waiting for pancakes
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Philana Kang
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Ella
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Upper Primary category (school years five and six)
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Boyd Dunham
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Tank of War
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Francisco Segorbe
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Sacrifice
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Luke Zeng
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Tennyson Down
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Justina Jia Tang
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Self Portrait
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Carys Williams
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Monkey!
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Brendan Chin
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The Breach
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Kai Keulder
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The Serpent's Rest
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Quincy Mo
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Robot Factory Spaceship
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Guillaume Daoud
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Streaky Bacon
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Candice Kang
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Doggo Dive
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Lower Secondary category (school years seven, eight and nine)
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Cindy Pei Ying Wang
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Euroia
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Macey McKeown
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Departure
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Finn Coggin
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Night Lights
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Olivia Grant
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Tranquility
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Hazel Dortch
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Untitled
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Milla Leach
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Immersion
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Hina Soria
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Untitled
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Claire Musarra
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Superb Fairy-Wren
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Samara Ainge
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Brick Bugs
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Violet Seah
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Stellar
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Upper Secondary category (school years ten, eleven and twelve)
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Adine Sequiera
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Lorna
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Sophie Regan
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Shadows
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Tia Christophers
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The Hound
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Jessica McBow
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Were You Paying Attention
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Hannah Richardson
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Vintage Beauty
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Jo Quinn
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Untitled
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Nikki Singh
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Tribus
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Emelia Tansey
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After Desolation
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Janine Jia Ning Li
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Sunbath
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Cilla Daw
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Yallingup
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Collection of artworks
Artworks will be available for collection at Subiaco Library between Monday 8 July and Sunday 28 July. Any artworks not collected during this time will become the property of the City of Subiaco and due to storage restrictions may be destroyed.
All regional entries will be returned to the entrant via post before Sunday 28 July providing they fit in a standard postage tube (90mm x 850mm). Regional entries which do not meet this criteria must be collected by the entrant before Sunday 28 July.
Exhibited artists must collect their entries from Subiaco Library at the close of the exhibition. Artworks must be collected between Monday 5 August.
Prizes and exhibition
Prizes are donated from the City of Subiaco and award sponsors and are presented to the top three entries in each category. A selection of the best artworks entered will feature in a month long public exhibition at Subiaco Library from Tuesday 9 July until Sunday 5 August. All exhibited artists receive professional framing or mounting for their artworks.
The city would like to acknowledge the generous support of award patron Shaun Tan and our valued sponsors Janet Holmes à Court AC, Kool Kreative, Prime Art Picture Framers, New Edition Bookshop, Subiaco Bookshop and Dymocks Subiaco.
Frequently asked questions
For more information on entry requirements and competition information, please see our frequently asked questions document (PDF 464KB).
About Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan is an acclaimed artist and writer who grew up in Perth. 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 1920s found in the archives of the Subiaco Museum.
Shaun began drawing and painting images as a teenager, and has since become best known for illustrated books with surreal, dream-like imagery. Shaun's books have been translated into many languages and are enjoyed by readers of all ages.
In 2011, Shaun won an Academy Award for his short film, The Lost Thing, and received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award honouring his contribution to international children's literature. For more information about his work, visit Shaun Tan’s official website.