We aim to bring you regular updates of upcoming events, media coverage, publications and commissions. For recent TV, radio or press coverage click: Press. Scroll down this page for all the latest news....
Chris Gollon Art Channel now launched...
'The Party'
Film maker Ronny Haynes has embarked on a series of short films of Chris Gollon working. One a month will be made and broadcast online; building a unique record of Chris Gollon at the height of his creativity. To watch the artist's skill and techniques (described in the excellent book below) in action as Gollon paints 'The Party', visit the Chris Gollon Art Channel
New book on Chris Gollon
'Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art' by Tamsin Pickeral
Humanity in Art-Back cover
Leading art historian Tamsin Pickeral's book on Chris Gollon's life and work will be published on 20th May 2010. Her last publication, published by Merrell (London & New York), was very well received and reviewed by the arts press including very favourably by Frank Whitford in the Sunday Times, and was voted in the top 50 books of 2008 by the Financial Times. Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, London) may be pre-ordered from Amazon and all good bookshops now. To pre-order on Amazon, click here. Copies signed by Chris Gollon can be pre-ordered from IAP Fine Art, London, by emailing info@iapfineart.com with 'Gollon book' in subject line. Price: £20 (+ £5 p&p UK, £8 p&p Europe, £14 p&p to rest of world).
Alan Yentob's 'Imagine' programme on BBC1--1st Dec '09
Justice (II)
Chris Gollon is one of 5 artists featured in BBC1's Imagine programme, which was first shown on Tuesday Dec 1st 2009. As part of a BBC1 documentary about the Arts Council's 'Own Art' scheme, the BBC film crew followed Gollon as he accepted, researched and then painted a private commission from a leading human rights lawyer to paint 'Justice'. Gollon produced two paintings on the theme, each very different in mood and impact.
Since he was only expecting one painting, the barrister faced an agonizing choice between two very powerful works. Click on the image to find out more.
IAP Fine Art joins Own Art
IAP Fine Art, London, representing Chris Gollon, has now become part of the Arts Council's Own Art Scheme, which allows collectors to benefit from interest-free credit up to £2,000 when paying or part-paying for works of art. For more information, contact IAP Fine Art.
IAP Fine Art, London
Following many recent sales of his paintings, IAP Fine Art, representing Chris Gollon, has now moved to a very large new space in Chelsea. The opening show is 'Gods, Angels & Souls' new paintings by Chris Gollon. For more information on opening times, or location, please click: IAP Fine Art.
Chris Gollon's paintings at Eastside Inn
Celebrity chef Bjorn van der Horst and his wife Justine have just begun to collect Chris Gollon's paintings and are admirers of his work, (as Chris is of Bjorn's cuisine). Previously, Bjorn was chef patron at Gordon Ramsay Holdings’ La Noisette in Knightsbridge where he won a Michelin star within six months of opening.
The Fool On the Hill
His exciting new solo venture 'Eastside Inn', a large new restaurant for fine dining, and also a brasserie in St John St, London EC1 has now opened, and has incorporated Chris Gollon's paintings into the interior design. (Interior design by Carole Cobban of Amalgam).
Still Life With Stringed Instruments (2009)
To enjoy the very fine dining in this exciting new restaurant and to view the Gollons on display, or to find out more click: Eastside Inn
'Stations of the Cross' by Sara Maitland
Collectors' Edition of 100 (book + silk-screen print)
Stations of the Cross by Sara Maitland
Continuum Books in London & New York has published award-winning novelist Sara Maitland's book entitled 'Stations of the Cross', which is solely a book of her reflections on Chris Gollon's paintings of the Stations of the Cross. Unveiled by the Bishop of London, this powerful and moving series of paintings were installed permanently in the Church of St John on Bethnal Green in spring 2009, transforming this historic church, designed by Sir John Soane and located adjacent to the Museum of Childhood, into a major visitor attraction in East London.
To celebrate the launch of this exciting new book in both UK and USA, and to celebrate the culmination of 9 years work by Chris Gollon, as his paintings were finally installed, IAP Fine Art published a unique Collectors' Edition of 100 (signed book + print). We have agreed with Sara and Chris that there will be just 100 of the books signed by them both and numbered 1/100 - 100/100. To go with these in a Collectors' Edition we published with Chris Gollon, and master printmakers Ian & Jan Wilkinson at the Goldmark Atelier, a simple hand-drawn and hand-printed A4-size silk-screen print, entitled 'Study for the Crucifixion', in an edition of only 100.
Study for the Crucifixion
The signed books and signed silk-screen prints have been packaged together to commemorate this historic moment (they will not be sold separately, and no.1/100 book will be packaged with 1/100 silk-screens and so on...). Sara Maitland's book is the first publication to reproduce all 14 Stations of the Cross by Chris Gollon. The silk-screen print which Chris has produced is a simple, powerful and moving single-line image of the Crucifixion on a coloured ground.
Each book/print from the Collectors Edition of 100 is available at £175 + £15 p&p. Thirty sold in advance of publication, so please order now to avoid disappointment. To purchase, or for further information, please contact us.
‘THE DOG 5,000 Years of The Dog in Art’ by Tamsin Pickeral
'The Dog 5,000 Years of the Dog in Art' by Tamsin Pickeral
Merrell Publishing (New York & London) has just published a major art-historical tome entitled ‘THE DOG 5,000 Years of The Dog in Art’ by Tamsin Pickeral with exquisite reproductions and an excellent and insightful text.
The author Tamsin Pickeral chose Chris Gollon’s ‘Anubis & Charon’ (1997), devoting a page to the Gollon painting in the chapter entitled The Mythical Dog to feature alongside works by Breughel, Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, Oudry, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Rubens.
She writes very intelligently and insightfully about Chris Gollon’s work and this particular painting. This beautifully-produced hardback book has some wonderful images and fascinating text about Man's ever-changing view of the dog, from one of Man's earliest beliefs in the dog as deity or psychopomp (conductor of souls), dwelling both in the physical and supernatural worlds, to a whole spectrum of belief across many cultures depicting the dog as deity or devil, noble or bestial, adored or abhorred.
As the author says: "In many ways, the emergence of the dog in art, from its first marginal depictions to its increasingly central role, particularly in paintings, mirrors the dog's creeping steps over the threshold of human society. Conversely, the prevalence of the dog's appearance in art through the ages has left a vivid account of its place, and role, in human history." It is available in all good bookshops and via Amazon.
