About IAP Fine Art

  • Head shot of David Tregunna, Art Curator and Art Consultant

    Exhibition curator and Director, IAP Fine Art, David Tregunna in conversation with Mark Calderbank (right),  film director and designer.  (Photograph © J. Wright). 

    Established in 1994 in London, IAP Fine Art is a contemporary art gallery, print publisher and art consultancy, holding original paintings for sale and fine art prints by leading British artists, including Chris Gollon, Maggi Hambling, David Hockney, Barbara Rae, Terry Frost and many more. We have a 30-year history of selling well known artists’ paintings and prints to private collectors, corporate collections and museums. We offer art consultant services to collectors and corporate collections, and hold the Chris Gollon Estate, having exclusively represented Chris Gollon (1953 – 2017) for 23 years. We have curated exhibitions in museums and cathedrals, as well as editing and publishing exhibition catalogues with texts by leading writers and art historians.

  • Representing Chris Gollon’s Legacy
    We hold the Chris Gollon Estate and are assisting art historian Wilfrid Wright as he writes the catalogue raisonné. In 2019, we were invited to curate CHRIS GOLLON: Beyond the Horizon, the first museum retrospective of Gollon’s music-related works at Huddersfield Art Gallery, since the museum's permanent collection acquired Gollon's 'Einstein & The Jealous Monk (after Bob Dylan)' in 2005. We published the exhibition catalogue featuring contributions from leading writers and musicians, including Thurston Moore, Eleanor McEvoy, Yi Yao, and Tamsin Pickeral. It included a special recording with Eleanor McEvoy and a film installation using Gollon’s imagery created with the Sleaford Mods.
  • Works by Maggi Hambling and other British Artists
    In 1998, we began publishing prints with Maggi Hambling to raise money for the Terrence Higgins Trust. Today, we hold a collection of her original paintings for sale, as well as a selection of monotypes and fine art prints. We hold works by other well known artists such as David Hockney, John Hoyland, Victor Pasmore, Sir Terry Frost and Barbara Rae. We also enjoy working with three contemporary talents: artists Julian Penberthy and Chris Friel, master jeweller Paul Hatton and the innovative designer-maker Possible Mirror.
  • Curating in Museums and Cathedrals

    Wilfrid Wright, IAP Fine Art , curator and  gallery manager, in conversation with translator Sébastien Cagnoli. 

    (Photograph © J. Wright). 

    Curating in Museums and Cathedrals

    Museum collections, including British Museum, have acquired Chris Gollon's work from us. We curated or assisted the curation of Chris Gollon’s solo and mixed exhibitions at Chisenhale Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Durham University, Bretton Hall, St Paul’s Cathedral and the award-winning River & Rowing Museum. From 2014-2016, we curated ‘Incarnation, Mary and Women from the Bible’, Chris Gollon’s national touring exhibition to English cathedrals. In 2018, the Grade I listed Romsey Abbey purchased from us Chris Gollon’s ‘St Ethelflaeda Diptych’ for permanent installation in the Abbey. We assisted with fund raising, framing and installation of Chris Gollon’s critically-acclaimed Fourteen Stations of the Cross for the Grade I listed St John on Bethnal Green, London.

     

  • Bringing Well Known Artists' Paintings to the Wye Valley
    In 1994, we were one of the first galleries to open in East London, before moving to Imperial Wharf, Chelsea in 2010 and then to St James's in 2012. In 2016, we re-located to Monmouth, which now serves as our main base, in the heart of the beautiful Wye Valley (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and just 50 minutes from Bristol, Cardiff, Hay-on-Wye, and the Cotswolds. Post-Covid most sales are now made via our website, and we ship paintings and prints throughout the UK and worldwide. We have a viewing studio in Monmouth and another in Spitalfields, London, for collectors wishing to view by appointment.
  • Latest News: Supporting Chris Gollon’s Legacy On Screen
    From 2022 to 2024, we supplied images and archive materials for a feature-length documentary ‘CHRIS GOLLON: Life in Paint’ which had its World Premiere at the Barbican Centre, London, on 29th October 2024, as part of the Doc ‘N Roll Festival. Through archive footage of Chris Gollon in his studio and interviews with Thurston Moore, Maggi Hambling, Yi Yao, Eleanor McEvoy and novelist Sara Maitland, the film explores Chris’s ground-breaking imagery, techniques and the surge of interest in his work since his untimely death in 2017. We are currently helping with a second documentary that will be produced in 2025.