Hanzhen
b.1998
Yap Hanzhen is a young artist who has started drawing recently. His interest is in sketching still life objects and animals. He has an excellent attention to detail, seeing things in his own way. From the way he draws, he appears not to have a preconceived idea how the object would appear in the end.
Hanzhen was born in Malaysia on 15th Sept 1998 of architects parents. As a child, Hanzhen was diagnosed as autistic and had to be intervened vigorously to attempt normal life. He attended a mainstream private primary school with age-group peers. Having successfully completed the UPSR, he is now attending Year 7 in the international section of the school. The school's greatest gift is in the support and acceptance given by his circle of friends and teachers. They have invariably looked beyond disability and are able to recognise the beauty and talents in individuals.
His interest is also in music where he plays the piano relatively well. Shirine Yeo, his dedicated music teacher, has taught him from young. Nevertheless Hanzhen learns best from sound and sight. He has also weird computation techniques and a huge memory on numbers, particularly calender dates and days.
Approximately one in ten (10%) of persons with austictic spectrum disorder have savant skills. Hanzhen's savant-like skills in drawings is seemingly starting to emerge. He has an incredible desire to draw where he had done more than 500 sketches in the space of less than two years! There's no stopping him. His archival collection of sketches can be viewed at his website at www.hanzhen.org. See the progression of his sketches.
Living in a creative environment at home and having seen sketches since young, he is now very comfortable with pencil sketches, normally preferring the 3Bs and above for his rendition of details. He creates confident lines, drawing exactly what he sees in a quirky manner, usually applying minor shading to distinguish planes, depths and shadows. He has yet to be introduced fully into other mediums of drawings. His sketches of iconic animals and insects such as cats, dogs, butteflies, etc has caught the attention of an international boutique house - Velvet Series. Discussions are being done now to have art work commissioned to Hanzhen for them to be drawn and used as graphic content on specialty merchandise such as t-shirts, bags, etc for the local and international markets. Publicity and income generated from these will be channelled back to non-profit organizations in the hope to create better public awareness in disability such as autism.
His inaugural exhibition in September 2011 at Leisure Farm features original pieces from his black and white collection, aptly entitled “Of Obedience, Solitude and Beauty".
b.1998
Yap Hanzhen is a young artist who has started drawing recently. His interest is in sketching still life objects and animals. He has an excellent attention to detail, seeing things in his own way. From the way he draws, he appears not to have a preconceived idea how the object would appear in the end.
Hanzhen was born in Malaysia on 15th Sept 1998 of architects parents. As a child, Hanzhen was diagnosed as autistic and had to be intervened vigorously to attempt normal life. He attended a mainstream private primary school with age-group peers. Having successfully completed the UPSR, he is now attending Year 7 in the international section of the school. The school's greatest gift is in the support and acceptance given by his circle of friends and teachers. They have invariably looked beyond disability and are able to recognise the beauty and talents in individuals.
His interest is also in music where he plays the piano relatively well. Shirine Yeo, his dedicated music teacher, has taught him from young. Nevertheless Hanzhen learns best from sound and sight. He has also weird computation techniques and a huge memory on numbers, particularly calender dates and days.
Approximately one in ten (10%) of persons with austictic spectrum disorder have savant skills. Hanzhen's savant-like skills in drawings is seemingly starting to emerge. He has an incredible desire to draw where he had done more than 500 sketches in the space of less than two years! There's no stopping him. His archival collection of sketches can be viewed at his website at www.hanzhen.org. See the progression of his sketches.
Living in a creative environment at home and having seen sketches since young, he is now very comfortable with pencil sketches, normally preferring the 3Bs and above for his rendition of details. He creates confident lines, drawing exactly what he sees in a quirky manner, usually applying minor shading to distinguish planes, depths and shadows. He has yet to be introduced fully into other mediums of drawings. His sketches of iconic animals and insects such as cats, dogs, butteflies, etc has caught the attention of an international boutique house - Velvet Series. Discussions are being done now to have art work commissioned to Hanzhen for them to be drawn and used as graphic content on specialty merchandise such as t-shirts, bags, etc for the local and international markets. Publicity and income generated from these will be channelled back to non-profit organizations in the hope to create better public awareness in disability such as autism.
His inaugural exhibition in September 2011 at Leisure Farm features original pieces from his black and white collection, aptly entitled “Of Obedience, Solitude and Beauty".
hanzhen
111-1 jalan damai, taman sri setia,
80300 johor bahru, malaysia
t 607-2234762 f 607-2233762
info@hanzhen.org
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