Chris Gollon Exhibition

CHRIS GOLLON
New Paintings
16 March - 9 April 2012
Bohemia Galleries 7 Gillygate York

This exhibition will include the latest works
Bohemia Galleries 7, Gillygate, York, YO31 7EA
(01904 466488 – 01482 881882).
bohemia-galleries.com

Taking Tamsin Pickeralʼs recent book, Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art, as a starting point, Gollonʼs latest work reflects on his 20-year journey as an artist. Pickeralʼs 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 Gollonʼs 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. 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 Chisen hale Gallery, London. His work is attracting increasing acclaim in the national press, specialist arts press and Alan Yentobʼs

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.


Bohemia Galleries, 7 Gillygate, York