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Chris Gollon at Eastside Inn
Eastside Inn--Bar (IV)
Eastside Inn--Bar (II)
Celebrity chef Bjorn van der Horst's restaurant Eastside Inn now has a cool new bar. Patrons can sup a fine cocktail or aperitif before eating in the brasserie (film maker Ronny Haynes pictured doing just that--see below for more on Ronny), or remain in the bar and simply order "Appeteasers", mini-versions of the the brasserie's main dishes. 
Eastside Inn--Bar (I) While imbibing, you can also enjoy the company of two 'Dancing Philosophers' from the recent series of vibrant new paintings by Chris Gollon. Bjorn and his wife Justine collect Chris's work, and they have asked IAP Fine Art to display some of his paintings in both bar and brasserie as conversation pieces and to offer diners an exclusive 'private view' of the works. Enjoy! 
Eastside Inn--Brasserie
Chris Gollon Art Channel now launched...
'The Party'
Film maker Ronny Haynes has embarked on a series of short films of Chris Gollon working. One a month will be made and broadcast online; building a unique record of Chris Gollon at the height of his creativity. To watch the artist's skill and techniques (described in the excellent book below) in action as Gollon paints 'The Party', visit the Chris Gollon Art Channel
New Book on Chris Gollon
'Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art' by Tamsin Pickeral
Humanity in Art (back cover)
Leading art historian Tamsin Pickeral's book on Chris Gollon's life and work was published in May 2010, and is now available to purchase. Her last publication, published by Merrell (London & New York), was very well received and reviewed by the arts press including very favourably by Frank Whitford in the Sunday Times, and was voted in the top 50 books of 2008 by the Financial Times. Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, London) may now be ordered from Amazon and all good bookshops. To order on Amazon, click here. Copies signed by Chris Gollon can be pre-ordered from IAP Fine Art, London, by emailing info@iapfineart.com with 'Gollon book' in subject line. Price: £20 (+ £5 p&p UK, £8 p&p Europe, £14 p&p to rest of world).
Alan Yentob's 'Imagine' programme on BBC1
Justice (II)
Chris Gollon is one of 5 artists featured in BBC1's Imagine programme, which was first shown Tuesday Dec 1st 2009. As part of a BBC1 documentary about the Arts Council's 'Own Art' scheme, the BBC film crew followed Gollon as he accepted, researched and then painted a private commission from a leading human rights lawyer to paint 'Justice'. Gollon produced two paintings on the theme, each very different in mood and impact.
Since he was only expecting one painting, the barrister faced an agonizing choice between two very powerful works. Click on the image to find out more.
IAP Fine Art joins the Arts Council's Own Art Scheme
IAP Fine Art now has a Consumer Credit Licence and is pleased to offer via the excellent Own Art scheme interest-free credit over ten months on any purchase up to £2,000. You can purchase any work of art from us between £100 and £2,000 on interest-free credit (subject to status), take the work home, and pay in instalments over 10 months. Or, you can put the £2,000 interest-free Own Art facility to part-pay for a painting costing more. This excellent Arts Council scheme helps more people to start or develop their art collections. For more information, please contact us.
IAP Fine Art have moved!
Imperial Wharf
Having spent 15 years in the East End of London, IAP Fine Art now moved west: to the welcoming and attractive Imperial Wharf. We are delighted to now occupy a 2,000 sq ft space at Imperial Wharf, an exciting new residential and commercial development by the river in Chelsea. For more information, please click Location.
Chris Gollon's paintings at Eastside Inn
Celebrity chef Bjorn van der Horst and his wife Justine have just begun to collect Chris Gollon's 's paintings and are admirers of his work, (as Chris is of Bjorn's cuisine). Previously, Bjorn was chef patron at Gordon Ramsay Holdings’ La Noisette in Knightsbridge where he won a Michelin star within six months of opening.
Still Life With Stringed Instruments (2009)
His exciting new solo venture 'Eastside Inn', a large new restaurant for fine dining, and also a brasserie in St John St, London EC1 has now opened, and has incorporated Chris Gollon's paintings into the interior design. (Interior design by Carole Cobban of Amalgam).
The Fool On The Hill
To enjoy the very fine dining in this exciting new restaurant and to view the Gollons on display, or to find out more click: Eastside Inn
Chris Gollon in the press and on BBC1
Beast
Apr/May 2009 sees Chris Gollon in the press again with excellent reviews in Aesthetica magazine, Artists & illustrators Magazine and on BBC1 News. To find out more, click here.
Developing a new visual language in the form of the human figure
Angels
Chris Gollon is currently developing a very unique and stylized anatomy, which he began to do in autumn 2008, and continued exploring during his Fellowship and Residency at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University (Jan-Mar 2009). In these latest figures, using a degree of abstraction, yet retaining an element of the representational, juxtaposing voluminous, sensual fleshy limbs with flat, matt black outlines, Gollon is developing a way of using figures to describe or hold ideas. All 16 paintings produced by Chris Gollon while in residence at the IAS are exhibited 8 May - 28 June 2009. For more information on the exhibition, please click Being Human.
This exhibition at IAP Fine Art is accompanied by a 52-page colour catalogue, with texts by art historian Tamsin Pickeral, and Directors and Fellows of the IAS.
BEING HUMAN catalogue (cover)
'BEING HUMAN' paintings by CHRIS GOLLON is on sale at £10 from IAP Fine Art, London during the Being Human exhibition, and is also available by post (£10 plus £2.50 p&p in UK, or £6 worldwide). For more information, please click on the cover image (left) or contact us.
'Stations of the Cross' by Sara Maitland
Collectors' Edition of 100 (book + silk-screen print)
Stations of the Cross (Continuum Publishing)
Continuum Books in London & New York have published award-winning novelist Sara Maitland's book entitled 'Stations of the Cross', which is solely a book of her reflections on Chris Gollon's paintings of the Stations of the Cross. This powerful and moving series of paintings have been installed permanently in the Church of St John on Bethnal Green in spring 2009, transforming this historic church, designed by Sir John Soane and located adjacent to the Museum of Childhood, into a major visitor attraction in East London. (Details at Chris Gollon website then click Commissions)
To celebrate the launch of this exciting new book in both UK and USA, and to celebrate the culmination of 9 years work by Chris Gollon, as his paintings are finally installed, IAP Fine Art has created a unique Collectors' Edition of 100 (signed book + print), which is selling in advance of publication, but will be available in March 2009. Once published, we have agreed with Sara and Chris that there will be just 100 of the books signed by them both and numbered 1/100 - 100/100. To go with these in a Collectors' Edition have published with Chris Gollon, and master printmakers Ian & Jan Wilkinson at the Goldmark Atelier, a simple hand-drawn and hand-printed A4-size silk-screen print, entitled 'Study for the Crucifixion', in an edition of only 100.
Study for Crucifixion
The signed books and signed silk-screen prints will then be packaged together to commemorate this historic moment (they will not be sold separately). Sara Maitland's book is the first publication to reproduce all 14 Stations of the Cross by Chris Gollon. The silk-screen print which Chris has produced in January is a simple, powerful and moving single-line image of the Crucifixion on a coloured ground.
Each book/print from the Collectors Edition of 100 will be sold at £175 + £15 p&p. They are selling in advance of publication, so please order now to avoid disappointment. To purchase, or for further information, please contact us.
BBC Radio 4 programme 'Sunday'
Stations of the Cross (VII)
On the BBC Radio 4 programme: 'SUNDAY' on 22nd March 2009, Chris Gollon and Fr Alan Green were interviewed about Gollon's 14 Stations of the Cross for the grade-one listed Church of St John on Bethnal Green, London.
‘THE DOG 5,000 Years of The Dog in Art’ by Tamsin Pickeral
'The Dog 5,000 Years of the Dog in Art' by Tamsin Pickeral
Merrell Publishing (New York & London) has just published a major art-historical tome entitled ‘THE DOG 5,000 Years of The Dog in Art’ by Tamsin Pickeral (with exquisite reproductions and an excellent and insightful text. The author Tamsin Pickeral chose Chris Gollon’s ‘Anubis & Charon’ (1997), devoting a page to the Gollon painting in the chapter entitled The Mythical Dog to feature alongside works by Breughel, Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, Oudry, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Rubens. She writes very intelligently and insightfully about Chris Gollon’s work and this particular painting. This beautifully-produced hardback book has some wonderful images and fascinating text about Man's ever-changing view of the dog, from one of Man's earliest beliefs in the dog as deity or psychopomp (conductor of souls), dwelling both in the physical and supernatural worlds, to a whole spectrum of belief across many cultures depicting the dog as deity or devil, noble or bestial, adored or abhorred. As the author says: "In many ways, the emergence of the dog in art, from its first marginal depictions to its increasingly central role, particularly in paintings, mirrors the dog's creeping steps over the threshold of human society. Conversely, the prevalence of the dog's appearance in art through the ages has left a vivid account of its place, and role, in human history." It is available in all good bookshops and via Amazon. The Sunday Times art critic Frank Whitford reviews favourably, chooses and recommends this book in his top 15 art books for Christmas 2008: 
Frank Whitford-The Sunday Times
IAP Fine Art Voted Number One Gallery in East End
Art critic Martha Alexander in her article for Artists & Illustrators magazine (Issue November 2008 ) on galleries in the East End, voted IAP Fine Art as the number one gallery in the East End.
The Mona Lisa Curse
Robert Hughes
The Mona Lisa Curse (Channel 4, Sept 2008) was not a sequel to The Da Vinci Code but a thoughtful critique of the impact of celebrity culture and commercialisation on contemporary art from Warhol to Hirst. The veteran art critic Robert Hughes collected together some wise elder statesmen of the art world to throw light on how “art as a commodity” has painted over “art as art”, and the chequebook has become the guide to artistic merit. For Hughes the degradation of art is symbolised by the Mona Lisa's transformation “from artwork into celebrity icon”. At least nobody has tried to wipe the smile off her face with a moving polystyrene wall and a bucket of water. Yet.
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
"At IAP Fine Art we agree with Robert Hughes' views. Our gallery philosophy is a very simple one: we believe in painting. We think that in the right artist’s hands, it can have something important to say about the human condition."
David Tregunna, Director IAP Fine Art.
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Interest Free Credit & Payment by instalments
IAP Fine Art has started to offer payment by instalments on selected works of art.
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Changing tastes, the return of figurative painting
With the Bacon market, we are witnessing a genuine shift in cultural sensibility. What used to be perceived as “difficult” now feels “real” and where Bacon paintings used to be viewed as morbid and distressing, they are now seen as exhilaratingly raw.
This shift relates to two other cultural trends: a swing in the epicentre of the art market from New York to London and the long, slow return of figurative painters to the canon of the avant-garde.
Article Selected by IAP Fine Art
For full article please see The Art newspaper:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16013
