(Portrait by Nick Stathopoulous) Shaun Tan is an Australian artist and writer whose picture books represent ways of belonging. The diversity of his images, and his short stories, show many different ways we can belong - socially, culturally and personally.
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Even the most staunch individualist belongs to groups that might be determined by gender, culture, experience, place, ritual and time. Shaun Tan's end papers in The Arrival, begin to tell stories about the diversity of individuals and the richness, in human experience, that is implicit when we belong.
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