22 Facts About Chris Gollon

Chris Gollon regularly exhibited in London and Monmouth with IAP Fine Art.

Chris Gollon had many solo museum exhibitions in the United Kingdom and has works in museum collections including the British Museum.

In 1989, Gollon was a finalist in The Spectator Prize.

Chris Gollon was a friend of The Skids and enjoyed the company of musicians.

Chris Gollon produced a painting entitled 'House of Sleep' for the 'ROOT' exhibition, which began his nineteen-year fascination with artistic boundary crossing, and how one art form can take another into new areas of thought and feeling and vice versa.

In 2001, a special exhibition of his work was held at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, because until 2005 Chris Gollon had a connection with the river; having a studio on Platts Eyot, a private island on the River Thames near Hampton Court west of London.

The museum, aided by the Victoria and Albert Museum, acquired a work by Chris Gollon entitled Big Fish Eat Little Fish, a centrepiece of the exhibition.

Chris Gollon's painting of the fourth Station of the Cross was shown in the exhibition Presence: Images of Christ for the Third Millennium in St Paul's Cathedral in 2004, along with works by Bill Viola, Tracey Emin, Maggi Hambling and Craigie Aitchison.

In 2007, Chris Gollon was commissioned to paint the Henley Regatta by Paul Mainds, Chief Executive of the River and Rowing Museum.

Since the Henley Royal Regatta has no silver or bronze medals, only win or lose, Chris Gollon decided to focus with great empathy on the losing crew.

Chris Gollon produced 16 paintings in 10 weeks on the "Being Human" theme, all of which are reproduced in the 52-page exhibition catalogue "BEING HUMAN: Paintings by Chris Gollon", published by Durham University.

Chris Gollon was Artist in Residence at St Mary's College, Durham University, from April to June 2011, where he began a series of paintings on the ancient theme of Love.

The exhibition at Chichester brought media attention since Chris Gollon painted what is widely believed to be the first-ever image in art history of Judas Iscariot's wife.

In 2016, it went to Romsey Abbey, where Chris Gollon painted a diptych of the Abbey's 10th-century abbess St Ethelflaeda.

In 2015, Chris Gollon began an exercise in artistic 'boundary crossing' with Irish singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy.

Chris Gollon has said that Eleanor McEvoy's lyrics take him into an area of female thought to which he did not previously have access, prompting many new images.

In 2017, the last interview with Chris Gollon regarding his secular paintings and the influence of music appeared in Nick Soulsby's book Thurston Moore: We Sing A New Language.

In 2018, the last interview with Chris Gollon regarding his religious works was published in Mark Byford's book The Annunciation: A Pilgrim's Quest.

Chris Gollon's painting 'Annunciation' is featured in the book and was displayed at the book's launch in Winchester Cathedral, April 2018.

Chris Gollon cast himself as Judas, hanging himself from a tree while the Magdalene looks on.

The exhibition demonstrates the three ways Chris Gollon used music to relate his imagery to the spectator, and it includes works from his collaborations with Thurston Moore, Yi Yao, and Eleanor McEvoy, as well as paintings partially inspired by Neil Young and Bob Dylan.

The exhibition is the UK premiere of a collaborative work of art, music and film, entitled FIREWALL, which combines the track 'Firewall' by the Sleaford Mods with Chris Gollon's imagery, produced by IAP Fine Art.