This exhibition catalogue was published to coincide with Australian artist Shaun Tan’s exhibition Suburban Odyssey. The show was exhibited at Fremantle Arts Centre in May 2012.
Shaun Tan was born in 1974 in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is an artist, writer, and film maker. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the Book of the Year” prize as part of the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards. The same book won the Children’s Book Council of Australia “”Picture Book of the Year”” award in 2007 and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards Premier’s Prize in 2006. For his career contribution to “”children’s and young adult literature in the broadest sense”” Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council