IAP Fine Arts Exhibits "Chris Gollon ~ Love"

Written by Jerome Anbwatet Sunday, 29 April 2012 21:57

London.- Taking Tamsin Pickeral's recent book, "Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art", as a starting point, Gollon's latest work reflects on his 20-year journey as an artist. Pickeral's illuminating appraisal inspired the artist to pull everything together from the past, including scratching in, scumbling and techniques using printmakers' rollers and experiments with soft matt blacks in what is arguably Gollon's most experimental period to date. Gollon's expressly unique and imaginative approach to painting the human form is still present in these latest works, many addressing the subject of "LOVE" in its many forms, from friendship, to unconditional, unrequited or fulfilled. The exhibition opened from April 15th until June 15th 2011.

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, specialist arts press 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. Visit the artist's website at ... www.chrisgollon.com.



Founded originally in East London in 1994 by arts writer, curator and collector, David Tregunna, IAP Fine Art is an established contemporary fine art gallery and fine art print publisher now based in St James’s, London SW1, close to the Royal Academy. Over many years, they have liaised with and assisted several national museums in curating Chris Gollon’s solo shows (including Ferens Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery, St Paul’s Cathedral and River & Rowing Museum). Museums and public collections have purchased Gollon’s work from them, and they have also shown at ART Chicago and various London art fairs. In 1998, they started working with Maggi Hambling, initially publishing editions of fine art prints, and more recently exhibiting oil paintings, monotypes and watercolours. “The gallery philosophy is a very simple one: we believe in painting. We think that in the right artist’s hands, it can have something important to say about the human condition. At its best, and in any era, great painting is exciting. It can take us somewhere we haven’t been before, provoking us into new areas of thought and feeling.” David Tregunna, Director, IAP Fine Art. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.iapfineart.com

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