The Night Feed
Night Feed
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Being Human
Date of Work: Jan-March
Year of Work: 2009
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 48" x 36"
£5,500 framed. This painting was produced by Chris Gollon while he was a Fellow and First Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham (Jan - Mar 2009). It forms part of the exhibition 'Being Human', which is accompanied by a full colour catalogue, with texts by the other Fellows and by art historian Tamsin Pickeral.
This painting was partially inspired by a well-oiled evening and dinner with novelist Sara Maitland in St Chad's College at Durham University. She told Gollon about one of the most tender moments of her life: breast feeding her young son in the early hours. She also told him about her experiences of silence, which she also writes about in her excellent 'The Book of Silence', and how after a few weeks she heard tremendous commotion and clanging, and Pan appeared from which we get the word pandemonium. Gollon was struck by both experiences, and combined them in The Night Feed. The baby appears more as the Devil's child, and the mother is silenced by a donkey mask. What should be a touching moment is suddenly turned into something darker.
To purchase this work, or for further information, please contact: IAP Fine Art, London. T: 0844 561 1833.
