Geoff Dixon: Portraits of Us

Christchurch was amazing. It was conservative, but it wasn't as well. A lot of things behind closed doors.

– Geoff Dixon on his time at art school

Emotionally I wasn't in a great space with my family, and I got a job at the CSA gallery in Christchurch. And that was a really formative time. I was 18 and, just this expansive new world opened up...

– Geoff Dixon looks back

I just started wanting to paint endangered birds, and yet they were hard to find in the nineties. You'd look them up and they're not endangered . . . but now, so much is in a critical situation environmentally, I can paint them all. That's how it all happened. That's why I became a bird person.

– Geoff Dixon

[Glenis] Giles and [Clare] O’Leary, who have previously worked together on films about artists Ralph Hotere and Gordon Crook, historian Michael King and playwright Mervyn Thompson, had all but given away film-making when the opportunity came up to get the band back together . . . Then along came an angel investor who believed Dixon’s work deserved to be better known.

– Writer Tom McKinlay in The Otago Daily Times,16 August 2022