Sunday Morning
Oil on board by Shaun Tan.
Painting size: 30 x 25 cm (11.8″ x 9.8″)
This was a concept sketch, originally created for an unrealised sculptural project, that subsequently fed into ideas for Shaun’s collection of recently published animal stories Tales from the Inner City (Allen & Unwin, 2018), namely the story ‘snail’ which is more or less about a collision of public debate with private sex lives (in this case, of giant, amorous molluscs).
Shaun Tan’s available art and biography.