Chris Gollon
Welcome to the official information website for established British artist Chris Gollon. Born London 1953, Gollon has enjoyed many solo museum exhibitions in the UK, major 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, entitledKaleidomorphism 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 Sir John Soane church in East London. Chris Gollon was both First Artist in Residence and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study (2009), Durham University, and accepted an invitation to return as Artist in Residence at St Maryʼs College Apr-Jun 2011. The paintings he produced there are exhibited by IAP Fine Art. Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art by art historian Tamsin Pickeral (Hyde & Hughes) was published in 2010. Chris Gollon is represented by IAP Fine Art, London. One of his Gollon’s paintings was used as part of the story in the Hollywood film Twilight: Breaking Dawn (I). Chris Gollon is currently working on a series of paintings for a tour of British cathedrals, in collaboration with award-winning novelist Sara Maitland. For latest news items, click: News. To subscribe to the monthly newsletter for latest information on the artist and exhibitions, click: here.
