Marichris Anire
Marichris believes that art is undeniably a conductive of happiness. An adoptive child who found solace in creating arts believes that art relieve stress and anxiety. She started sketching and drawing using pencil and sign pen at young age. She prides herself to have sold her drawings to theirs neighbors whenever they needed help for their projects. Unfortunately, typhoon drown away most of her drawings. When her foster parents died in Borongan, Eastern Samar where she grow up her parents took her back to Cadiz, Negros Occ. Her love for drawing was put to shelved when she experienced hand cramps during college days. Picking up the pencil to draw was painful but it’s inevitable she had to draw because she took up Civil Engineering (Undergrad). She arrived in Hong Kong in 2012, that’s the time she rekindled her love for art, but now she’s more adventurous, using different mediums such as acrylic, pastel, charcoal pencil, pencils, and watercolor pencil.
After her first employer of 4 years and 7 months she is now exactly 4 years in here present employment. Her employers continue to support her, and even gave her cash to buy a bag for her art projects. Her enthusiasm continue to grow when she joined Guhit Kulay. Expanding her network and joining painting competition for the first time with the Balikatan sa Kaunlaran in October 2018. And as student at DWEP for Clean Up Drive she made a poster art. Apart from painting she is also an aspiring photographer. She said, she loves to freeze the moment by taking photos of people, animals and sceneries. She believes that things change, people change but photos stay the same. She is a member of a photography group called TWTP, Lensational Beginners and was a student at HKU's DWEP Domestic Workers Empowerment Project, an empowerment program for migrant workers.
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Exhibitions:
Everyday Gender Photo Exhibit, 480.0 Gender & Art Space, Yau Ma Tie, Kowloon, 2020
Urban Sketches/Photgraphy Art Postcard, Athletic Juice Espresso, One Hennessy, 2019
Obra: Sining at Galing ng mga Migranteng Pilipino, Philippine Consulate General, Hong Kong, 2019
Photography exhibit, Lumenvisum Gallery, Shek Kep Mei, Kowloon, 2019
Kultura: NIDO Asia, Hollywood Road, Hong Kong, 2018
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