Chris Gollon (1953 – 2017) was represented by IAP Fine Art since 1993. Born in London, he enjoyed many solo museum exhibitions in the UK, museum acquisitions including the British Museum, and public commissions. He has exhibited at Art Chicago and in 1998 he exhibited 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 the Chisenhale Gallery, London. In 2004, he exhibited with Bill Viola, Tracey Emin and Craigie Aitchison in the exhibition ‘Presence: Images of Christ for the Third Millennium’ in St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

His work has often been featured  in the national press and specialist arts press: Financial Times, The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Gramophone, Aesthetica, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’ , BBC1 News.  In 2009, Chris Gollon and his work were featured on Alan Yentob’s BBC1 programme Imagine, with the programme following him through painting a commission. 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 Fourteen Stations of the Cross, which were commissioned by the Church of England for a grade-one listed Sir John Soane church in East London next to the V&A Museum of Childhood. In 2010 Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art by art historian Tamsin Pickeral was published, with an endorsement by Bill Bryson OBE.

In 2009, Chris Gollon was invited to become both a Fellow and First Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University,  in order to work on the ‘Being Human‘ project with some of the world’s leading thinkers. Following the success of that Fellowship, he accepted an invitation to return as Artist in Residence at St Mary’s College in spring 2011. In late 2011, the Hollywood film makers of the Twilight Saga leased the copyright of one of his paintings to use it as an integral part of the story in Breaking Dawn: Part One.