Films
Geoff Dixon: Portraits of Us directed by Glenis Giles & Clare O’Leary
Gogo Media, Wellington 2022
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Geoff Dixon is a Bluff-born artist who has made his home in Cairns, Australia. Now in his sixties, he has been exhibiting in New Zealand, with Wellington’s Bowen Galleries since the mid-1980s. Glenis Giles and Clare O’Leary’s Portraits of Us, screening at International Film Festivals around the country, is a feature-length documentary that profiles Dixon, delivering a fascinating portrait of his art and life.
The film spends a lot of time in Dixon’s
