This original painting is in acrylic on panel and part of the Chris Gollon Estate. It is featured in the new 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 it 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 it. 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. To view a trailer or buy tickets: https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/chris-gollon-life-in-paint/