Chris Gollon (b. 1953, London) is an established name in British painting.  He has exhibited in St Paul’s Cathedral with Bill Viola and has works in major public collections including the British Museum.  His Fourteen Stations of the Cross, blessed by Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, are permanently installed in the Church of St John on Bethnal Green, a grade-one listed church designed by Sir John Soane next to the Museum of Childhood. 

Chris Gollon has enjoyed many solo museum shows, 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 was featured on Alan Yentob’s BBC1 programme Imagine. 

The book on his life and work Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art by art historian Tamsin Pickeral, and endorsed by Bill Bryson OBE, was published in 2010 and is available to purchase in the gallery. Chris Gollon was made 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 Mary’s College in 2011.  Later that year, Gollon’s painting ‘Birth’ was used as part of the story in Hollywood’s Twilight Saga movie Breaking Dawn (I). 

His current major national touring exhibition to English cathedrals ‘Incarnation, Mary & Women fro the Bible’ is attracting much critical acclaim in the national press and media, including reviews in The Independent, Radio 3 and an interview on BBC Radio 2 with Clare Balding. Lord Harries used Gollon’s ‘Pieta’ in his lecture at the Museum of London on ‘The Pieta in Art History’, alongside works by Bellini, Michelangelo and Van Gogh.  Chris Gollon is exhibiting in January 2016, in ‘The Art of Mary’ with Celia Paul and Ian McKillop in Southwell Minster. 

Chris Gollon has a lifelong interest in music and enjoys the company of musicians. Song lyrics very often lead to exciting new imagery and Gollon has just announced his collaboration with the highly-acclaimed, best-selling Irish singer/songwriter Eleanor McEvoy. Gollon collector Eleanor has sent Chris a recording of her forthcoming album of new songs, some of which she has co-written with Dave Rotheray of The Beautiful South and with Lloyd Cole and with Nat Johnson. Chris is currently working on his artistic response to the songs, with the resulting paintings being exhibited in his forthcoming exhibition ‘Naked Music’ at GALLERY DIFFERENT in January 2016.