Shaun Tan – Untold Tales
Untold Tales is Shaun Tan’s second solo exhibition at Beinart Gallery. This highly anticipated exhibition features a diverse collection of Shaun Tan’s narrative artwork taken from the past two decades, from large-scale oil paintings to small whimsical sketches, relating either to published work or to personal projects that have not been previously exhibited or made commercially available.
Opening night: Saturday, March 9, from 5pm – 10pm. Free entry. This exhibition runs from March 10 to March 31, 2019.
The works in this exhibition collectively present a cross-section of narrative experiments exploring the fertile ground between childhood picture books and adult fables, each image suggesting a deeper story that is best left to unfold in the mind of the viewer: a family living happily in a skull, an unexpected dinner guest, a bird king, a lonely creature living in a bathroom, a portrait that's also a landscape. These are strange and...