A Perth Modern student has been awarded first prize in Subiaco’s annual Shaun Tan Award for Young Artists, with judges describing his portrait as “subtle, beautiful, and skilfully rendered”.

Raadin Ebadi won first place on Tuesday night in the upper secondary category with his piece titled “Future Serenity”.

Lower secondary category winner Jasper Lindon, from John Curtin College, was acclaimed for his artwork Father’s Portrait, described as an “honest and charming portrait with a refined colour palette”.

In a pre-recorded video message, Tan — the Australian artist, writer, filmmaker and patron of the competition — shared his painting and drawing progression from childhood and showed some of his first artworks.

He said a “liveliness, colour, diversity and technical skill” was on show th

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