George Underwood - We Love Dancing
George Underwood - We Love Dancing
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George Underwood was born in 1947. George joined Beckenham Art School in 1963. At art school George Underwood became more and more interested in music. As a result, he pursued a career in the music world. Along with lifelong friend David Bowie he made one record (The King Bees) and also a solo record under the name Calvin James. After deciding that the music business was not for him, George returned to art studies and then worked in design studios as an illustrator. Initially he specialised in fantasy, horror and science fiction book covers. Many of George Underwood's colleagues in the music business asked him to do various artworks for them. This led to George becoming a freelance artist. Art work for the first T Rex album and later David Bowie’s Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust album covers established him as a leading and creative art illustrator.
At the start of the 1970’s Underwood started painting in oils. His paintings were influenced at first by the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism - artists which included Ernst Fuchs, Rudolph Hausner and Eric Brauer.
George Underwood paintings are held in many private art collections. One of his art collectors, David Bowie, said: ‘George has, over the years, refined his work to the point where I would put him among the top figurative painters coming out of the UK right now. There’s a sublime isolation surrounding his subjects that really touches the viewer, the figures being both heroic and vulnerable simultaneously. There’s a timeless element in the choice of subject matter that overlaps with the mythical world of Odd Nerdrum, say. Now that a huge shift to painting is taking place, I would expect to see George’s name pushed further and further to the front’.
“When I saw the line - 'we love dancing and we look divine', I immediately thought of a painting I did in 2004 which was called 'Dancing With Giants'. In the centre of the painting there are a couple of Satyrs dancing naked with sheer drapes. I thought I would steal my own idea and adapt it for the War Child project.Basically, I took the central detail of that painting and enlarged it to fit onto my canvas.
There is another Bowie connection in the painting. In August 1972, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars performed at The Rainbow theatre, Finsbury Park. This legendary concert was supported by Roxy Music which is pertinent to my painting as Lindsay Kemp's dance troupe - (named 'The Astronettes' for the concert) wore flesh revealing spider web costumes. I decided to incorporate those same costumes into my painting.”
The original artwork was specially created for the Sound & Vision Auction (2024), presented by Art on a Postcard in collaboration with War Child.
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