Christopher Green
- Faculty
- Bespoke Courses Faculty
- Alumni, 2008
Biography
Since finishing the Drawing Year, Christopher has been developing his large-scale drawing practice, working mostly outdoors in London and Essex. He has completed several commissions, including recent invitations to draw in the Scottish Highlands, in a woodland in the Chilterns, and the interior of a Wren church. Christopher has had work included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2024, and the Working Drawing Prize in 2022. In 2017 he won the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. He has several large drawings on display in public buildings around London, including The Royal Courts of Justice and St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield. Christopher tutors at the Royal Drawing School, and at Bedford House. He lives and works in London.
On drawing
Drawing, to start with, is a form of navigation, a way of orientating myself in the world and a way of exploring: a drawing can turn corners, see through solid walls, move underground or simply bend space. There is freedom in drawing, but also a satisfaction in capturing, in some sense, ‘what it was like’. This includes a record of time passing, something that can be built into the process of making a drawing, or can find its way into one accidentally. Drawing on the street, particularly in London, things move and change quickly; time appears in the form of unfinished edges, lengthening shadows, spaces where parked cars used to be. It is a record of looking, of noticing, and of improvising.
