Rira Miri

RIRA MIRI | PORTFOLIO BIOGRAPHY Rira Miri was born in 2002 in Tehran. She grew up in an artistic family that lit the love of art specially cinema in her. Her nationality and her roots which are from an ancient country have had great influence on her love to art.the first sights of art started to grow in her by seeing Persian great art around her. Since she was so young she participated in painting courses.she always knew she would love to continue her studies in cinematography and have a job in cinema industry.since her father is a movie director cinema has always played an important role in her life.she always had this opportunity to attend movies back stage and see the process up close. After middle school she decided to study art at high school. To be able to continue her studies in cinematography like her father. She studied at kherad art high school for two years and took part in many art workshops such as drawing, illustration, layout, Graphic, print, calligraphic graphic and photography and did some school project in these fields. Based on her love and interest on cinema she mostly spend her time watching movies and day dreaming her role in such great atmosphere. When she was drawing she felt as if she was creating movie scenes. She always used audiobooks and also their home as the sources of inspiration.her drawings usually include parts of their home.she rarely uses human figures she prefers to draw people solely, even if there. are many people in her drawings she prefers to show their loneliness separately. She believes in Abbas kiarostamis words that said people are more human in their loneliness. People in her drawings are mostly her parents but with a lot of changes that she make so nobody can recognize who they are. She loves simplicity so she takes photos omit details and draw simple views.she doesn’t follow routines about colors and would rather have her own color choice. Rira is spending her time on taking photos of different areas to be able to make a combination of photos and paintings.which is a project called “painting on the photos “that she is interested in. Rira believes that cinemas great world gives her this opportunity to perform all her dreams. One of her greatest dream is to combine the art of east and west and create a new language of art.

BIOGRAPHY

RIRA MIRI | PORTFOLIO DRAWING I have always loved to design a collection about working back scene and finally did it using pastel techniques. I tried to show different and less seen views. I have designed them based on imaginations without being loyal to reality and l have led this collection to simplicity because that is my taste. LIVING ON SOFA WORKING IN CINEMA PAINTING ON THE PHOTOS

DRAWING

RIRA MIRI | PORTFOLIO LIVING ON SOFA

DRAWING

RIRA MIRI | PORTFOLIO WORKING IN CINEMA

DRAWING

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DRAWING PAINTING ON THE PHOTOS

RIRA MIRI | PORTFOLIO ILLUSTRATION I have always loved to design a collection about working back scene and finally did it using pastel techniques. I tried to show different and less seen views. I have designed them based on imaginations without being loyal to reality and l have led this collection to simplicity because that is my taste. MODERN CINDERELLA

ILLUSTRATION MODERN CINDERELLA This collection has been the final project of illustration workshop which I drew in five frames ,with Ecoline and Colored pencil in the form of a book for children under seven. This story which has been written by me is about Cinderella in the present time in a city where all the girls are teapots By drawing this collection in the form of phantasy for children I wanted to show the differences between generations. and indicate that Cinderella or any others characters who were our childhood heroes, would have different behaviors if they lived in our present time.

RIRA MIRI | PORTFOLIO

ILLUSTRATION

RIRA MIRI | PORTFOLIO PRINTING In printing workshop, using ideas and experience which I had gained in illustration and drawing, did some things by using techniques including Lino cut printing, mono printing and drypoint. My printing works is so close to my illustration and drawing work according to ideas. I’m always looking forward to exhibiting my ideas with different techniques.

PRINTING