{{Short description|New Zealand artist (1932–2004)}} {{About|the New Zealand painter|the American football player and coach|Pat Hanley}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox artist | name = Pat Hanly | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = James Patrick Hanly | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|08|02|df=y}} | birth_place = Palmerston North, New Zealand | death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|09|20|1932|08|02|df=y}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | field = Painting | training = Canterbury College School of Art | movement = | works = The seven ages of man, Torso | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = | elected = | website = }}
'''James Patrick Hanly''' (2 August 1932 – 20 September 2004), generally known as '''Pat Hanly''', was a prolific New Zealand painter. One of his works is a large mural ''Rainbow Pieces'' (1971) at Christchurch Town Hall.
==Early life== Born in Palmerston North, Hanly was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School.<ref name="Arts Foundation">{{cite web |url=https://www.thearts.co.nz/artists/pat-hanly |title=Pat Hanly |publisher=Thearts.co.nz |access-date=10 July 2019 |archive-date=21 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321192752/https://www.thearts.co.nz/artists/pat-hanly |url-status=live }}</ref> His parents organised a hairdressing apprenticeship for him and he left school during 1948 without completing his fourth-form year.<ref name="Arts Foundation"/> During this time Hanly took night classes and then enrolled as a non-diploma student at the Canterbury College School of Art in Christchurch in 1952.<ref name="Arts Foundation"/> After completing his studies there, Hanly travelled to Europe,<ref name="Arts Foundation"/> and attended classes at the Chelsea School of Art.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Pat Hanly {{!}} Milford Galleries Dunedin |url=https://www.milfordgalleries.co.nz/dunedin/artists/62-Pat-Hanly |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.milfordgalleries.co.nz |archive-date=11 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011054831/https://www.milfordgalleries.co.nz/dunedin/artists/62-Pat-Hanly |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Career== Hanly returned to New Zealand in 1962, and accepted a part-time position teaching drawing at the University of Auckland School of Architecture.<ref name="Arts Foundation"/> Hanly is one of New Zealand's most prolific artists.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=College |first=Liston |title=Pat Hanly Awards (Art) |url=https://www.liston.school.nz/2022-08-26-news-events/pat-hanly-awards-art |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Liston College |language=en |archive-date=11 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011054831/https://www.liston.school.nz/2022-08-26-news-events/pat-hanly-awards-art |url-status=live }}</ref> Hanly continued to paint until his retirement in 1994.<ref name="thearts.co.nz">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110725112948/http://www.thearts.co.nz/artist_page.php%26aid%3D94%26type%3Dbio] </ref> thumb|The restored mural ''Rainbow Pieces'' (1971) at Christchurch Town Hall, commissioned by Sir Miles Warren, photographed in 2019.
===Major public commissions=== Hanly completed a number of large public murals at Auckland Airport, the University of Auckland School of Architecture, and the Aotea Centre. Hanly was also responsible for the Peace Mural on the corner of Karangahape and Ponsonby Roads in Auckland. Hanly was also commissioned by Miles Warren to paint "Rainbow Pieces" for the Christchurch Town Hall in 1971.<ref name="thearts.co.nz"/>
===Critical recognition=== During his time at the Canterbury College School of Art, Hanly received the Turner Prize for landscape, open to students, in 1953.<ref name="Arts Foundation"/> He won the Manawatu Prize for Contemporary Art four times (1963, 1964, 1966, and 1967).<ref name=":2" />
In 1971 Hanly was one of ten artists chosen for the ''Ten Big Paintings'' exhibition to celebrate the opening of a new wing for the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hayley |first=Russell |title=Hanly: a New Zealand Artist |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |year=1989 |isbn=0340431296 |pages=167}}</ref>
His artwork is held in several New Zealand institutions including the collections of Te Papa,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/997 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=collections.tepapa.govt.nz |archive-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630123235/https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/997 |url-status=live }}</ref> Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.i<ref>{{Cite web |title=Auckland Art Gallery |url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Auckland Art Gallery |language=en |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007180901/https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search {{!}} Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/search |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz |archive-date=12 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812004408/https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/search |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Legacy === The Pat Hanly Creativity Awards are an annual award for senior secondary school artists established in 2002. In 2021 there were 67 students from 35 schools that took part.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Supporting our future leaders - News |url=https://news.aut.ac.nz/around-aut-news/supporting-our-future-leaders-2021 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=AUT |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707160912/https://news.aut.ac.nz/around-aut-news/supporting-our-future-leaders-2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Along with artists Tony Fomison and Philip Clairmont, Hanly mentored the artist Fatu Feu'u in the 1980s to explore his Samoan culture in his artwork.<ref>{{Cite web |title=74. Fatu Feu'u |url=https://culturalicons.co.nz/74-fatu-feuu/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Cultural Icons |language=en-US |archive-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125044048/https://culturalicons.co.nz/74-fatu-feuu/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37089 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=collections.tepapa.govt.nz |archive-date=11 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211121754/https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37089 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1998 Hanly and his family were interviewed for a television documentary about his life as an activist and painter called ''Pacific Ikon.''<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Screen |first=NZ On |title=Pacific Ikon {{!}} Television {{!}} NZ On Screen |url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/pacific-ikon-1998 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.nzonscreen.com |language=en |archive-date=19 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619020957/https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/pacific-ikon-1998 |url-status=live }}</ref>
A survey book about his art ''Pat Hanly'' was published in 2012 was published by Ron Sang Publications.<ref name=":2" />
==Personal life== Hanly married Gillian (Gil) Taverner in 1958 and the couple had one son and one daughter. Hanly had another daughter in 1979, Amber, outside of his marriage.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pat-hanly-533732.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pat-hanly-533732.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Pat Hanly|date=19 November 2004|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=25 October 2021}}</ref> Gil took up photography in the late 1970s and became a photographer of note.<ref>{{cite news |title=For the record |first=Adam |last=Gifford |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10890716 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |date=15 June 2013 |access-date=30 September 2017 |archive-date=30 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930131150/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10890716 |url-status=live }}</ref> Pat Hanly was an anti-nuclear activist who 'opposed French nuclear testing in the Pacific and visiting American warships' including painting anti-nuclear art.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-07-19 |title=Anti-nuclear artists depict protest era |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/7306858/Anti-nuclear-artists-depict-protest-era |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Stuff |language=en |archive-date=18 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918182207/http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/7306858/Anti-nuclear-artists-depict-protest-era |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''New Zealand Who's Who'' listed his recreations as kite flying, sailing and Greenpeace.<ref name=":1" />
Hanly died in Auckland on 20 September 2004, having suffered from Huntington's disease.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Herrick |first=Linda |date=21 September 2004 |title=Battle against Huntington's over for artist Pat Hanly |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3593174 |access-date=10 July 2019 |archive-date=11 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011054831/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/battle-against-huntingtons-over-for-artist-pat-hanly/ELL7XGR3PC7GP5C2JAKKNMQMXY/?c_id=6&objectid=3593174 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://nz-artists.co.nz/artists/hanly/ Biography of Hanly by Elizabeth Caughey] *[http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/the-collection/browse-artists/525/pat-hanly Works in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery] *[http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues11to20/hanly.htm Transcript of interview of Hanly by Hamish Keith]
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