In 1935 they left for London, where Dahl was employed by László Moholy-Nagy designing a new store for his menswear company Simpsons of Piccadilly and Geoffrey with Erwin Wasey, an American advertising agency.
Geoff, Dahl, and Alistair Morrison held an exhibition called "Three Australians" at the Lund Humphries Galleries in 1938, receiving a favorable notice from E. McKnight Kauffer.
[4] Their film-making career began in 1935 and 1936 in the Spanish Pyrenees, shooting several rolls of film, which became their documentary Alquezar , and on their return from Europe, in Tahiti.
Their productions include: In June 1998, at a Special General Meeting, shareholders in the company resolved to wind up its affairs[9] Their daughter Donna was born in Europe in 1937.
On returning to Australia they had a home at 31 Captain Pipers Road, Vaucluse, where daughter Silver Ley Collings was born on 3 April 1940.