Chris Gollon
Chris Gollon is an established name in British painting. Born
London 1953, he has enjoyed many solo museum exhibitions in
the UK, museum acquisitions and public commissions. He has exhibited
at Art Chicago and also with Yoko Ono, David Bowie and Gavin
Turk in ROOT, a crossover exhibition of contemporary music and
art created by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, at Chisenhale
Gallery, London.
His work is attracting increasing acclaim in the national press
and specialist arts press: Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian,
Aesthetica,BBC Radio 4, BBC1 News, and Alan Yentob’s BBC1
programme Imagine. His film collaboration with JABOD, entitled
Kaleidomorphism One, was premiered in London at the East End
Film Festival (2008). Novelist Sara Maitland’s book Stations
of the Cross (Continuum, London & New York, 2009) was wholly
inspired by and features Gollon’s 14 paintings of the
Stations of the Cross, which were commissioned by the Church
of England for a grade-one listed Sir John Soane church in East
London. Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art by art historian Tamsin
Pickeral (Hyde & Hughes) and endorsed by Bill Bryson OBE,
was published in 2010.
Chris Gollon was both First Artist in Residence and Fellow
of the Institute of Advanced Study (2009), Durham University,
and has accepted an invitation to return as Artist in Residence
at St Mary’s College in spring 2011. Chris Gollon lives
and works in Surrey, and is represented by IAP Fine Art, London.
CHRIS GOLLON Humanity in Art by Tamsin Pickeral
Published by Hyde & Hughes 2010
ISBN 978-0-9563851-0-9
Chris Gollon Humanity in Art is a lively and studied account
of the life and work of leading contemporary artist Chris Gollon,
an artist who brings humanity in all its forms to the canvas,
in works often gently ironic and markedly perceptive. Self-taught
like Francis Bacon, unconventional and often challenging, Gollon
has breathed new direction into contemporary painting. Bringing
his fascinating life peopled with musicians, enormous characters,
strange occurrences, desperate lows and great successes to the
canvas, he now counts amongst one of the twenty-first century’s
most important, and charismatic artists.
‘Chris Gollon’s work is wonderfully provocative
and inspiring and added an exciting new dimension to the Being
Human project at Durham’s Institute of Advanced Study
on the Palace Green world heritage site.’
Bill Bryson OBE, International author and Durham University
Chancellor
‘Like [Stanley] Spencer, he dramatises the everyday in
contemporary images and, depicting our clumsy, ridiculous ordinariness,
brings alive for a modern, cynical audience the ghastly dissonance
of this story of good and evil, sacrifice and humanity, answering
on its own terms a 21st-century culture that regards the heroic
as absurd.’
Critic’s Choice, Jackie Wullschlager, Chief Visual Arts
Critic, Financial Times
To purchase signed copies of this book, click: Humanity
in Art
Publications - Chris Gollon
Aesthetica
Magazine Article
New article on Chris Gollon by Tamsin Pickeral 2012 @ Chris
Gollon Master of Change
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