Xtreme Art Award - Finalists
        12 May - 2 June
                            

New Zealand painter, Geoff Tune, born 1947, has been exhibiting regularly since 1969 and is represented in both public and private collections including the James Wallace collection and the Waikato Museum.
Between 1966-69 he attended the University of Auckland, gaining a Dip FA Hons and in 1970 Dip Tchng at Auckland Secondary Teachers Training College.
His works are highly sought after in the international market. In recent times, five of Geoffs works have found a home in the Cathay Pacific Airline lounge in Bangkok.
'The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists' describes Tune as a painter who "works in oil, acrylic, graphite and coloured pencil, explaining his work as a personal response to time and place through referencing images/symbols on continuity and mortality".
Art theorist, Mark Kirby, describes in his essay on Tune's body of work, as visual memoirs. This is in reference to the highly personal nature of this art in which 'the artist records via the formal language and devices of painting, his scrutiny of where he was physically, emotionally and psychologically at a given period'.
Geoff currently lives in Mt Eden in Auckland.