Chris Gollon
The Fashion Show, 2002
acrylic on panel
48 x 24 in
121.9 x 61 cm
121.9 x 61 cm
Copyright The Artist
From the Chris Gollon Estate, this painting features in the documentary ‘CHRIS GOLLON: Life in Paint’ (2024), which has its World Premiere at the Barbican Centre on 29th October 2024,...
From the Chris Gollon Estate, this painting features in the documentary ‘CHRIS GOLLON: Life in Paint’ (2024), which has its World Premiere at the Barbican Centre on 29th October 2024, as part of Doc ’n Roll Film Festival.
As art historian Mary Rose Beaumont notes in the film, Chris Gollon “has a fine sense of the ridiculous”, and the painting is used in the section of the film dealing with how unfashionable painting was in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with some people in the art world saying painting was dead. Yet, Gollon found a way, in part using music, in part through innovative techniques and his own unique imagination, to breathe new life into painting. The film is a fascinating insight into Chris Gollon’s working methods, use of music and how he created a painted world that reflects our own.
As art historian Mary Rose Beaumont notes in the film, Chris Gollon “has a fine sense of the ridiculous”, and the painting is used in the section of the film dealing with how unfashionable painting was in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with some people in the art world saying painting was dead. Yet, Gollon found a way, in part using music, in part through innovative techniques and his own unique imagination, to breathe new life into painting. The film is a fascinating insight into Chris Gollon’s working methods, use of music and how he created a painted world that reflects our own.