Ian David George (1953–2016) was a New Zealand-born Cook Islands senior painter, carver, educator, and curator of Atiu and Rarotonga descent.
George later returned to New Zealand in 1995 to oversee the art department at Hillary College.
[4] In 1998, he curated Paringa Ou, the first major exhibition of contemporary art by Cook Island artists residing in New Zealand, featuring artists such as Ani O'Neill, Sylvia Marsters, Mahiriki Tangaroa, Michel Tuffery, Jim Vivieaere, Ian George, and Kay George.
[5] Inside the New Zealand Parliament, the entrance to The Pacific Room is designed by George, and the wooden carving was carved by four carvers from the South Pacific, Ian George from Cook Islands, Fatu Feu'u from Samoa, Filipe Tohi from Tonga, and Palalagi Manetoa from Niue, about how Pacific peoples from those islands came to New Zealand and made the new country home.
[9] Director David George dedicated a full-length feature documentary 'Aka'ōu: Tātatau in the Cook Islands to his father Ian George, about a heavily-tattooed Englishman living in Rarotonga named Croc Coulter.