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Ilongga represents PH in Japan arts festival
- Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2015/07/04/tourism-boom-expected-lapu-417028
- Saturday, July 4, 2015
- By Tara Yap
Iloilo City— A 16-year-old Ilongga student was the lone representative of the Philippines during the 2015 International High School Arts Festival in Japan.
Eouia Aum Gonzales Dueñas just came back from Japan’s capital city of Tokyo after participating in an exhibit organized by the International Foundation for Arts and Culture (IFAC).
Exhibited was her painting “Amburukay’s Gold Hair.” That particular painting of Dueñas is a visual rendition of one of the female characters in the Hinilawod (Epic of Panay), the oral literature of the indigenous group Panay Bukidnon or Sulodnon who dwell in the mountains of Central Panay.
“I was very happy to share our culture as portrayed in my art work,” said “Dueñas.
Her participation in the international art exhibit began last March when she emerged as winner of a painting contest amongst students of the Philippine High School for the Arts, where she is currently a 10th grade student.
More popularly known as Om, Dueñas learned to draw and paint at a very early age.
When she was two, she could identify secondary colors and started water-based paintings with assistance from her father Guijo, an artist and photojournalist.
By three-years-old, Om was beginning to sketch and paint flowers, rainbows, butterflies, and dinosaurs.
Om began exhibiting works of art when she was four-years-old. “My Own World”, her first solo exhibit in Iloilo featured 21 acrylic paintings.
On March 2006, Om’s second solo exhibit dubbed as “My Dreams” also featured acrylic paintings.
By November 2011, Om had her third solo exhibit dubbed as “Iwag sa Laragway.” It featured pastels on paper boards.
Aside from her solo exhibits, Om also won the 2007 painting contest that was part of the European Commission’s Global Gender Equality project.
Read more at http://www.mb.com.ph/ilongga-represents-ph-in-japan-arts-festival/#r2XxbfM4UgFEXvrC.99