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“It’s like my own morse code, my own shorthand.”
From writing poetry on the underground to interpreting nightmares in drawing, Chris Christodoulou discusses his practice with Sarah Gillett in parallel with his 2019 exhibition, Home.
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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.
“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.
“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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Lithography
An image is painted, drawn or stencilled onto a slab of limestone or a metal plate (often aluminium) with oily materials, including greasy crayons and pencils, special ink called tusche, and photochemical transfers.
“The unprinted space has its own presence.”
Artist Lucy Annan discusses architecture, light and discarded objects in her exhibition Peripheral Vision at HAUSPRINT with fellow artist Chris Christodoulou.