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 grapples with the complexities of life in his epic drawing series Odyssey.
Artist Lucy Annan discusses architecture, light and discarded objects in her exhibition Peripheral Vision at HAUSPRINT with fellow artist Chris Christodoulou.
Artist Sarah Praill discusses the ideas and archeology behind her exhibition “To carry a feeling” at HAUSPRINT.
“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.”
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.
“It’s all because I want to see myself, I want to see those unnoticed moments, how they pass by, what is really happening. So that makes the work very personal.”
“I love drawing really quickly. I love drawing in really difficult situations. I love drawing in the dark. I like what happens when you can’t see everything or when it’s passed and you have to remember it rather than drawing what it actually looks like, so it’s about the experience of looking as much as what I’m looking at.”
We talk to Michelle Avison about building a resilient artistic practice over 30 years.
SooMin Leong’s practice focuses on the transition from one place to another, both through literal journeys and the many stages that go into making her prints. Each is a story informed by the experience and impression of travelling. We interviewed her about her own journey into printmaking.
From her inspirations to struggling to find a place to draw, Michelle takes us through a chronological history of her work, and how she learned to embrace the practice of looking in this video presentation.
Following a previous career as a forensic psychiatrist, James Anderson’s colourful carborundum and layered woodcuts convey the emotion of inner worlds. We discuss abstraction, inspiration and the hard work of practice with him.
Eleanor grapples with her attraction to decorative interiors, finding beauty in pattern, object and light, in this video presentation.
“When I’m sitting in a ballet rehearsal I don’t have access to a table or any printing things so I have to make the monoprints from sketches when I get home. There’s a lot of bodies, there’s a lot of faces, a lot of movement.”
In this podcast episode released by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Sarah Gillett talks about her research on how astronauts dream, the promise of future seances, and the joy of collaboration.
In this video presentation, Helen talks about the different ways in which she explores the world around her through drawing, painting and printmaking, including looking at dancers in rehearsal, the natural environment and portraiture.
In this video presentation, SooMin discusses her practice, the importance of landscape in her images and how walking can change how we experience the world.
A 2 hour taster session to make a print and find out about our HAUSPRINT Etching Year.
The Linocut course will take you on a journey from the basics of linocut through to more advanced prints using multiple layers of jigsaw blocks. The course is suitable for beginners or more experienced printmakers.
The HAUSPRINT Etching Year is a unique opportunity to learn printmaking skills over one year. This etching course is designed to teach you the essentials of etching, to introduce new techniques and help you build and develop your work, whatever your starting point.
