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Chris is a South African artist, maker and activator (paintings, murals, photographs, films, writings, sounds and more), currently residing in Cape Town & the Garden Route.
After graduating at the top of his class with a BA in Brand Communication, Chris worked as an art director in Cape Town for 2 years. Always with an eye for ideas and an endless love for creating, he began his journey into the world of "artist" in 2012, when a stomach operation and a few months recovery gifted him a new perspective on life. It was then and there that he decided to quit his job in order to follow what he always thought was a dream or an after-hours hobby. To him, painting would become the first tool he would pick up in this process of becoming an artist.
What followed has been nothing short of an epic journey. In the making of his first solo exhibition in 2014, Chris began painting murals and making films. His growing interest in listening to the public voice and being a conduit for this voice through his art has become a strong theme in recent ad/ventures.
He has taken part in a number of group shows, created album artworks for well known SA musicians and painted murals across the world. In 2016, he run a successful crowd-funding campaign, involving an online and physical group exhibition, to buy a piece of land in the Garden Route. The intention here: to embark on an off-the-grid, creative retreat and forest-restoration vision. In 2018, he also helped design, fund and build a community Longhouse as an artwork at AfrikaBurn, not to be burnt but rather deconstructed, rebuilt and used on the previously referred to piece of land.
website: www.auret-art.com/about-me
instagram: www.instagram.com/chris_auret/
