This painting by Chris Gollon is from a series of 'Dancing Philosophers', which Chris painted after having been made a Fellow and First Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, where he was invited to work with some of the world's leading thinkers on the Being Human research project.
Having never been to university himself, at first Chris was quite daunted by meeting and working with such high-profile academic minds, from three different continents. He decided to take them out for an evening for supper and a few drinks. Much later in the evening, they found themselves in one of Durham's pubs with a large dance floor. Suddenly these seemingly straight-laced academic thinkers started displaying some extraordinary dance moves and styles, which Gollon could not forget and recorded warmly in this series.