Being Human (Preliminary Paintings)

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This exhibition in our lower floor exhibition space, features selected recent works. Some are the preliminary paintings he produced before becoming Fellow and First Artist in Residence at the prestigious Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, (January — March 2009). Gollon's powerful and formally innovative paintings came to the attention of the Directors of the IAS in 2007, and together with some of the world's leading academics and creative thinkers he was then invited to take part in a major international research project straddling all disciplines from Arts & Humanities, to Sciences and Social Sciences. This exhibition entitled ‘Being Human (Preliminary Thoughts)' at IAP Fine Art shows Chris Gollon's preliminary works and his own early thoughts on the Fellowship & Residency's theme of ‘Being Human'.