Geoff Dixon lives and works in Cairns, Queensland, but he was born in Bluff, New Zealand in 1954.
Old World/New World continues Geoff's focus on issues of survival and adaptation. His painting contrasts a tui with two very old bird specimens from the Canterbury Museum ornithological collection - the unusual orange kea and the Andean condor. Old World/New World featured in the Robert McDougall Gallery's Snare/Mahanga 2009 in which contemporary artists responded to rare and extinct birds in the Canterbury Museum. Geoff has long been concerned with the fragility of the natural world alongside the human drive for collection, preservation and the tragedy of extinction. He confronts his audience regularly with the unsettling fact that a third of New Zealand's remaining birds are in serious decline.
Geoff studied graphic design at the Christchurch Technical Institute 1974-75. He was the Art Foundation's Artist in Residence in Southland 1997 and the Art Centre of Christchurch's Artist in Residence 2007-8.