Chris Golle | The Work
Statement
Chris Golle’s work aims to distort the boundary between physical and internal spaces, and explore issues of artifice, illusion and imagination. He presents everyday scenes gone slightly askew, hovering somewhere between reality and fantasy, and where a strange familiarity and quiet stillness combine to produce a sense of the uncanny.
There is a strong filmic quality to Chris Golle’s paintings, which often resemble film stills isolated from a wider narrative, or theatre stages in which action has or may yet take place. Drawing inspiration from directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch, alongside painters such as Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, Golle aims to convey surreal notions of the subconscious and the metaphysical through a film noir lens. He gradually builds the composition of the painting in a way that a director might compose the Mise-en-Scene of a production, with deep staging and dramatic lighting and shadow to create tension and draw the viewer into these mysterious, ephemeral spaces.
CV
Born: London, 1987
Education
2007-2010 Wimbledon College of Art: BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting (2:1)
2005-2006 Chelsea College of Art: Foundation Diploma in Fine Art
Awards and Honours
Winner of Signature Art Award 2010
Group Exhibitions
2012 Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Old Town Hall
2011 'Safe', Splash Studio, Wraysbury, in collaboration with The PRSDNTS Club
2011 'Devour'- Emerging Artists Exhibition, AAF, in collaboration with Jotta
2010 'Signature Art Awards', DegreeArt Gallery, Vyner Street
2010 'Hackney Wicked', Stour Space Gallery
2010 'Generation 10', The Hyatt Regency- The Churchill, in association with Candlestar
2010 The Cobden Club, Notting Hill
2010 Wimbledon College of Art Degree Show
2010 Wimbledon Arts Space
2009 JWT London
2007 Hortensia Gallery
Collections
Landmark PLC Collection
Publications and Press
February 2011 Jotta.com Interview
July 2010 'Don't Panic' Magazine
July 2010 British Airways 'High Life' Magazine
June 2010 FringeMk Painting Prize Catalogue