Chris Gollon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chris Gollon
Occupation	British Artist
Date Of Birth	Jan 14, 1953(1953-01-14)
Age	71
Date Of Death	2017-04-25
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Chris Gollon Biography

Chris Gollon is one of the most popular and richest British artist who was born on January 14, 1953 in London, England, United Kingdom. in 1989 Gollon made it to the finals of The Spectator Prize. The first exhibition of his solo in a museum was held at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull in 1993. It was at the time Museum Gallery of the Year. The show was broadcast by BBC Look North. Chris Gollon was a friend of The Skids and enjoyed the presence of the musicians. The year 1998 was the time he participated together with David Bowie, Yoko Ono and Gavin Turk in ‘ROOT’ which was conceived in collaboration with Thurston Moore, the founder of Sonic Youth, a crossover show of art and music from the present in the Chisenhale Gallery, London. In ‘ROOT’, Thurston Moore gave Gollon an audio recording of 52 seconds and asked him to create or create a piece of music or art in the response. Gollon painted “House of sleep” in the exhibition ‘ROOT that marked the beginning of his 19 year exploration of artistic boundary crossing and how one artistic form can be used to open up new realms of thinking and experience, and the reverse is true. The painting ‘House of sleep’ was became an individual collection in 1998, however it was loaned out for the museum’s retrospective in the year 2019 at the Huddersfield Art Gallery, in the catalogue. Thurston Moore stated that “Chris Gollon’s work moves beyond painting as singular expression, where music and its essence of spiritual sentience, comes into accord, creating a personal yet welcoming environment, alive and free. I am proud to have had a moment where we colluded via the gestures of mutual acquaintance. His creative and modest genius is eternal.”

An unplanned meeting during 2005 among Chris Gollon and filmmakers JABOD was the catalyst for the development of a neologism and the creation of a brand new cinematic work: “Kaleidomorphism One”. Fiveteen years of Gollon’s art and images, along with music he’s chosen (including Calexico and Paolo Conte) are paired with JABOD’s design, rhythm , and effects to make a film installation that runs for 20 minutes. Kaleidomorphism One premiered at the East End Film Festival in the year 2008.

Also in 2009, after nine years in the making, Gollon’s series of paintings of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross were installed in the Church of St John on Bethnal Green in East London. They were blessed and by the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, in March 2009. In the same month, British novelist Sara Maitland’s book Stations of the Cross, inspired by and featuring Gollon’s paintings, was published. The book also contains a text by Fr Alan Green about the story of the commission and his personal collaboration with the artist. To bring the story closer, Gollon used his own son as the model for Jesus and his daughter as Mary, and Fr Alan Green as Nicodemus. Gollon’s Fourteen Stations of the Cross are site-specific and permanently installed. They are both an active aid to worship and also make the Church of St John on Bethnal Green a visitor attraction in East London.

In 2009, Chris Gollon was invited to become a Fellow and first Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Study (Durham), Durham University, where he took part in the Being Human research project and worked with some of the world’s leading thinkers to describe ‘being human’ in the 21st century, with subject areas such as ‘Mind/Consciousness’, ‘Abjection/Bare Life’, ‘War’, ‘Migration’ and ‘Home’. He produced 16 paintings in 10 weeks on the “Being Human” theme, all of which are reproduced in the 52-page exhibition catalogue “BEING HUMAN new paintings by Chris Gollon”, published by Durham University. The catalogue includes texts on Gollon’s work by Tamsin Pickeral, Prof. Ash Amin, Prof. Frances Bartkowski, Prof. Eduardo Mendieta, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Adi Ophir, Prof. Ingo Gildenhard, and a poem “Human” by Michael O’Neill.

The artwork depicting the 4th Station of the Cross (Jesus meets his Mother) was featured in the exhibit Presence The Images of Christ for the Third Millennium in St Paul’s Cathedral in 2004 alongside artworks of Bill Viola, Tracey Emin, Maggi Hambling and Craigie Aitchison. The following year, he started painting pictures from Albert Einstein, before the 50th anniversary of Einstein’s passing in 2005 and prior to the centenary celebration in the year 2005, of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. In part, influenced by a lyric from Bob Dylan’s ballad “Desolation Row”, Chris Gollon created “Einstein & The Jealous Monk”. The painting was then bought at Huddersfield Art Gallery. Huddersfield Art Gallery in West Yorkshire which is where it now hangs inside the collection of the Museum, alongside Sir Jacob Epstein’s statue of Einstein as well as paintings of Francis Bacon, Walter Sickert, Henry Moore and L.S. Lowry.

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Chris Gollon is one of the richest British Artist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Gollon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year 2000 was the time that Gollon received a grant from Church of England for fourteen Stations of the Cross paintings for the Grade I listed London church created by Sir John Soane, St John on Bethnal Green, located near the V&A Museum of Childhood. Gollon was not a popular choicebecause there was no evidence that he was a Christian. In order to fulfill the mandate, and also for theological reasons, he decided to cooperate along with Father Alan Green, Rector of the church.

In 2001, an exhibit of his work was presented within the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames since, until the year 2005, Gollon was connected to the river, having an studio at Platts Eyot, a private island in the River Thames near Hampton Court west of London. The museum, supported through the Victoria and Albert Museum, bought a piece by Gollon named Big Fish Eat Little Fish that was the main focus of the exhibit.

In 2007, Chris Gollon was commissioned to paint the Henley Regatta by Paul Mainds, Chief Executive of the River and Rowing Museum. The museum’s collection holds Raoul Dufy’s painting ‘Regatta at Henley’. Since the Henley Royal Regatta has no silver or bronze medals, only win or lose, Gollon decided to focus with great empathy on the losing crew. The final work entitled “Gollon at Henley” was unveiled in 2008, and is now displayed along with works by Dufy, John Piper, and Julian Trevelyan in the museum’s permanent collection.

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In 2012, The Art of Chris Gollon app for iPads was launched, in association with IAP Fine Art and Liquitex. Gollon’s solo show in Guildford Cathedral Incarnation, Mary & Women from The Bible (28 January – 3 March 2014), was accompanied by a 40-page colour catalogue entitled Incarnation, Mary & Women from The Bible reproducing all 16 paintings, edited by David Tregunna and with texts by Sara Maitland, Tamsin Pickeral, Canon Dr Andrew Bishop and Canon Dr Julie Gittoes. In 2013, Gollon began a 41 ft long painting entitled ‘And It Came To Pass’ that is also a 50–50 collaboration with Grammy-nominated Chinese classical virtuoso musician and occasional composer Yi Yao. This unique collaborative work was premiered—as part of the programme—at the Henley Festival 2014, where Yi Yao and her ensemble performed her composition twice each evening beside Chris Gollon’s painting. The music journalist Philip Clark for Gramophone magazine has interviewed Will Self, Iain Sinclair, and Chris Gollon, about the influence of music on their work.

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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’ (Omnibus Publishing, 2017). In this interview, Gollon explains the combination of the atmospheric 52-second tape Thurston Moore sent him, which also prompted the memory of a scene from the 1972 Robert Redford film ‘Jeremiah Johnson’, both helped him create the image ‘House of Sleep’ for the 1998 ‘ROOT’ exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London.