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“If I’m not sketching, then I’m not alive. It’s kind of a bloodline.”
In this conversation between artists Chris Christodoulou and Michelle Avison recorded during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown, Chris discusses his obsessive sketching practice and how drawing is fundamental to his life.
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How do I feel now?
This exhibition brings together new work – animation, drypoints, drawings and video projection – made in response to Odyssey, Chris’s 100m epic charcoal drawing.
“They’re not simple images. They are about everything.”
Artist Chris Christodoulou grapples with the complexities of life in his epic drawing series Odyssey.
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“They’re not simple images. They are about everything.”
Artist Chris Christodoulou grapples with the complexities of life in his epic drawing series Odyssey.
Daydreaming through decoration
“I felt like I was in multiple spaces at the same time – the studio, my source material, my paintings – and I really lost myself in the process of making. I had this epiphany that if I inhabited my paintings long enough then the experience of looking at them would contain the dysphoria I felt, because that’s how art works, it’s a sort of a mirror.”
Lizzie Latham
Lizzie Latham is an artist living and teaching in London. She graduated in 2025 from an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts.
Lizzie is the recipient of the HAUSPRINT Graduate Studio Prize 2026.