George Snow was educated at Tal Handak Royal Naval School, Malta, and at Windsor Boys School, Westphalia, Germany. He studied filmmaking and design at Middlesex University where he also subsequently lectured. He has taught at the Royal College of Art in London, The Danish Design School, The Royal Danish Academy, Parsons (New York) and Syracuse (New York State.) He is honorary professor at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of the University of Dundee.

While at college he spent time in Northern Ireland as a war photographer during the period ‘Internment Without Trial’ to ‘Bloody Sunday’. His work was published in Morning Star, Socialist Worker, Time Out and OZ.

After leaving college he worked closely with Albion records designing record sleeves and the logo for 999, Ian Gomm, the dbs, PinPoint and the Outskirts. His music industry design work was regularly featured in Edward Booth-Clibborn’s European Illustration during the 80’s.

His graphic work has been featured in Harpers & Queen, Vogue, the Sunday Times, The New York Times, Penguin Books, New Scientist, Playboy and BBC Publications.

His music video work includes several videos for the Art of Noise, Jack ‘n’ Chill, Ultraviolet, the Stranglers and London Beat- whose record ‘I’ve Been Thinkin’ About You’ was a worldwide number one. ‘Beatin’ the Heat’ for Jack ‘n’ Chill rose to number three in the UK charts.

He was commissioned by Channel 4 to make 2 short dramas as part of John Wyver’s  ‘Ghosts in the Machine’ series. His drama ‘The Assignation’ won several awards including a special commendation at the Tokyo Video Festival in 1989.

His first animation ‘Tall Story’, commissioned by Carlton TV, was a finalist in the 1995 British Animation Awards.

His installation ‘Motorway’, made in collaboration with the Art of Noise, was exhibited in the Worldwide Video Festival in Den Haag, the Melkweg in Amsterdam and Video Brazil in Sao Paulo.

The single screen version of ‘Motorway’ was shown at the London Film Festival in 1993 and at ‘Video Positive’ at the Tate gallery Liverpool.

During his stay in Italy George has designed web sites for the leading Florentine fashion house n9ve and the designer Mauro Taliani. On his return to London in 2010 he designed, the sleeve for the Nitewreckage album ‘Take Your Money and Run’.

In 2009 he organised ‘Bike Palestine’ (www.bikepalestine.com) a 7 day tour cycle tour of Palestine in collaboration with the Siraj Centre in Bethlehem. The tour runs twice a year in Spring and in Autumn.

In 2013 he completed APES. A 360 degree panoramic movie based on the works of the architects Alberti, Piranesi and Escher. APES is curated by Tom van Vliet of the WWVF and made in collaboration with the Vrije Academie in Den Haag. It is endorsed by the Escher Museum of that city.

In 2016 his Virtual Reality work ‘APES’ was shown at the Cannes film festival and at the Animaze festival in Montreal.

His production of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ which is set in Palestine and features the Palestinian actress Riham Isaaq and Alex Macbeth was exhibited globally and won two ‘best Short’ awards, most notably for the Tokyo International Film Festival.

He lives in Cortona, Tuscany.

EXHIBITS

1976 Graphic design for Joe Orton season - Royal Court Theatre for Albert Finney and Lindsay Anderson

‘Colour’ - Photographers Gallery, London

1978 Solo show of graphic work - Poznan, Poland

1979 to 1984 Contributed to Edward Booth-Clibborn’s ‘European Illustration’

1981 ‘Heads or Tails’ - Newcastle University and the Neal Street Gallery

1982 Set design for Jonathan Moore’s play ‘Street Captives’ at the Gate Theatre

1983 Curated ‘The City’ with Anne Howeson at the Illustrator’s Gallery, London

1985  The Best of European Illustration - New York

1986 ‘Muybridge Revisited’ commissioned by Channel 4

1987 ‘Strange Haircuts’ - Illustration work shown at Minneapolis University

1988  The Assignation’ shown at the Worldwide Video Festival in Den Haag

1989 ‘Shuttle Disaster’ screened on BBC 2

Co-directed ‘Wedekind’ with Micha Bergese for Channel 4 and BFI

1986 to 1996 Video work exhibited at the Worldwide Video Festival, Den Haag

1988 Special commendation for ‘The Assignation’ at the Tokyo Video Festival

1990 ‘I’ve Been Thinkin’ About You’ for London Beat is worldwide number one hit

‘The Assignation’ shown at Montbéliard Video Festival

‘The Assignation’ shown at Gyor Video Festival, Hungary

European Script Fund commissions ‘William Wilson’ Script

1991 Directed short ‘The Charity Box’ for Martin McDonagh

1992 Retrospective at the Vigo Video Festival

1993 ‘Motorway’ single screen shown at Video Positive - Tate Gallery Liverpool

1994 ‘Motorway’ single screen shown at the London Film Festival

1996 ‘Tall Story’ - Produced by Maggie Ellis - finalist in the British Animation Awards

2000 Adobe Calendar Competition winner

2004 Sculpture ‘Yuri Gagarin and Leika’ commissioned by Felix Dennis on permanent exhibition in ‘The Garden Of Heroes’

2005 Documentary ‘PIG’ gets 1,000,000 hits on YouTube

2007 ‘They’re Naked and They Dance’ banned by YouTube for being pornographic (Now on www.vimeo.com/snowy with no problems)

2009 ‘Stay Cool - War is Coming’ banned by YouTube for graphic images of extreme violence 2011

Jonathan Ross’ 286 gallery Christmas Show

2012 ‘Radical Illustrators’ magazine co-edited with Robert Mason incorporated into collection of MoMA, New York.

2022 ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ was ‘Best Short’ in the Tokyo International Film Festival.

INSTALLATIONS

1997 ‘Motorway’ - Installation created and shown at the Worldwide Video Festival in Den Haag. Curated by Tom van Vliet

1998 ‘Around and Around’ - featuring the wagons used to deport concentration camp victims - shown at York Castle

2001 ‘Motorway’ exhibited at the Melkweg in Amsterdam

2002 ‘Motorway’ exhibited at Video Brazil

2013 ‘APES’ - 360 degree panoramic movie based on the architectural work of Alberti, Piranesi and Escher is completed and ready for exhibition.

2016 APE VR production shown at Cannes festival and at Animaze, Montreal