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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.


Artist:Chris Christodoulou



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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.

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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.

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Odyssey

Exhibition of large scale drawing and prints by Chris Christodoulou.

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Home

What is home? Chris Christodoulou searches for ‘home’ in the blurry, velvety lines of drypoint, as he obsessively draws from his dream diaries and his domestic environment.

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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.”

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Linocut

In this relief printing process, an image is carved or etched into a sheet of linoleum. Ink is applied to the lino using a roller; the cut-away areas do not pick up ink. Paper is placed down onto the image and either printed on a press or printed by hand.

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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.

Artist:
Chris Christodoulou

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