Nick Spill lived in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked for the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an exhibitions curator at the National Art Gallery and as a contractor. He organized a number of exhibitions including the first traveling exhibition of Contemporary Maori Artists. Nick Spill now lives in South Florida where he is Chief Investigator of a State Agency. He has published "The Way of the Bodyguard - knowledge not gossip" about his experiences as a bodyguard and edited and released "Reluctant Q", the story of his father, George Spill who survived the jungles of Burma in World War II. He also contributed to the best selling NZ compilation, "Grumpy Old Men" published by Paul Little.