'Fourteen Stations of the Cross' by Chris Gollon, Permanently installed in the Grade I listed Church of St John on...

Chris Gollon's 'Fourteen Stations of the Cross' are a unique series of site-specific paintings, permanently installed in the Grade I listed Church of St John on Bethnal Green. The Church is designed by Sir John Soane and is situated next to the Young V&A and to Bethnal Green Tube Station.  

They were featured last year in episode one of BBC1's Gareth Malone's Easter Passion, where Gareth compared Gollon's treatment of the Passion to that of Johann Sebastian Bach's in its modernity. 

Gollon's highly-acclaimed Stations of the Cross are unique in many ways, notably the artist used his own son as the model for Jesus, his daughter as Mary and his wife as Veronica. The paintings all vary in size since they are site-specific, for example, Stations I & II when Jesus is sentenced to death and takes up His Cross would have occurred in private . These are therefore located in the Church's neo-classical vestibule to give the solemnity of a courtroom. 

From 14th September 2024, on the 2nd Saturday of every month,  the Church of St John on Bethnal Green is open to visitors 10am - 1pm.

St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA

A full-colour fine art catalogue is available here:  Stations of the Cross.

Gollon's paintings inspired the book 'Stations of the Cross' by Sara Maitland (Bloomsbury, London & New York), now available in a Special Collector's Edition with accompanying signed silk-screen print: Chris Gollon/Sara Maitland 

A study for the Stations, a signed silk-screen edition of 100 is available here: Mater Dolorosa