His imagery communicates so much that Tan once answered an entire set of interview questions with pictures. The words in his picture books are spare indeed, Tan has noted that his words illustrate the artwork, which rather turns the concept of illustration on its head. But this is not to say this his work itself is depressing: there is hope and open-endedness in his art, an invitation for the viewer to use the work as a means of self-reflection. The more positive emotions, he notes, resolve themselves.
Tan’s works deal with themes of displacement, alienation and searching, as well as loneliness and depression. We also have a collection of Tan's observational oil sketches.įor Tan, simplicity does not mean an absence of sophistication, and it is little wonder that so many find his visual explorations of ideas engaging. View Shaun Tan's available original artworks below or browse his limited edition prints here. Perhaps it is the marriage of whimsical figures to bleak environments, images that invite the viewer (or reader) to consider more than what is seen directly in his artwork. What is it about Tan’s work that accounts for his wide appeal? Perhaps it is the magic of his drawings that charmingly reconfigure the familiar into the unfamiliar. Shaun Tan is one of Australia’s most widely acclaimed artists and authors, celebrated internationally for his drawings, oil paintings, picture books and his Academy Award-winning animated short, The Lost Thing.
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