I moved to Hong Kong from mainland China with my parents when I was 12 years old. I loved art and sport. I knew I had an interest in art in secondary school. I learnt drawing as an extracurricular activity when I was 11 years old. I was not very good, but I won “First in Form” for visual arts almost every year in secondary school in Hong Kong. Since then, I haven’t been able to stop once I start to draw. I think maybe I found my self-esteem and confidence from it. Later, I studied in the Department of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I got my bachelor of arts, master of fine arts and postgraduate diploma in art education.
After teaching in a secondary school for a few months [as part of a requirement to get her post-graduate diploma in art education], it was clear to me that I wanted to be an artist rather than a teacher. I couldn’t stand the school hierarchy system, the boring routine of teaching and the standardised teaching plans that I needed to follow. I needed a way out. Making art was the only thing I knew how to do other than teaching, so I began my freelance journey after graduating from university in 2000.
This story is from the March 2024 edition of Tatler Hong Kong.
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