Shaun tan brief biography of prophets

Artist: Born in Fremantle in 1974, Shaun Tan grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth. From his teenage years he began drawing and painting images for magazines, to accompany short stories.

He now works in Melbourne and  is known internationally principally for his illustrated books, however he also paints and collaborates on animated movies (www.shauntan.net). Some of his own works have been adapted in these and other ways.

Subject matter: “Each spread drops the reader into a surreal world of bizarre animals, skew-whiff buildings, dreamlike landscapes and invented languages, the magical realism and conceptual playfulness of Tan's paintings underscoring the simple language of the tales – "illustrated modern fables" as he calls them.” (Pauli, 2009).

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