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Mark Boy Harris

London/Kuala Lumpur, United Kingdom

Mark Harris was born in England, but grew up in Australia and Papua New Guinea from the age of three...

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Mark Boy Harris

Joined In 2010

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About the artist

Mark Boy Harris

Joined In 2010

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(87 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
RECOGNITION

Mark Harris was born in England, but grew up in Australia and Papua New Guinea from the age of three to thirteen.

His was a blissfully happy childhood spent daydreaming, chasing rare and endangered wildlife, which he kept in his bedroom, and drawing pictures of rabbits in the bottom left corner of large sheets of paper.

His parents very sensibly kept their distance from this strange and wayward boy, entrusting his education to a pack of dingoes and the Australian school system, where he learned to play rugby, count to ten and hurl a tennis ball the length of a football field.

A great fondness for sports and outdoor adventure was matched by an equally enthusiastic propensity for catching near-fatal diseases, which has since become a lifelong hobby.

On his return to England a reversal of fortunes in the family’s finances forced the young Harris to abandon his ambition of becoming a Mini Cooper and continue with his formal education.

A succession of violent and misanthropic pedagogical failures persuaded him that his only escape from the violence and misanthropy of pedagogical failure was to be found in the art room where his talents were nurtured by yet more savage but well meaning miscreants who managed to convince ...

MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School.

BA in linguistics from SOAS, University of London.

Trained in storyboarding with Temple Clark - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164547/

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