# Pat Hanly

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{{Short description|New Zealand artist (1932–2004)}}
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| birth_name    = James Patrick Hanly
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| birth_place   = [Palmerston North](/source/Palmerston_North), New Zealand
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| death_place   = [Auckland](/source/Auckland), New Zealand
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| training      = [Canterbury College School of Art](/source/Ilam_School_of_Fine_Arts)
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'''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](/source/Palmerston_North), Hanly was educated at [Palmerston North Boys' High School](/source/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](/source/Ilam_School_of_Fine_Arts) in [Christchurch](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Auckland_Airport), the University of Auckland School of Architecture, and the [Aotea Centre](/source/Aotea_Centre).  Hanly was also responsible for the Peace Mural on the corner of [Karangahape](/source/Karangahape_Road) and Ponsonby Roads in Auckland.
Hanly was also commissioned by [Miles Warren](/source/Miles_Warren) to paint "Rainbow Pieces" for the [Christchurch Town Hall](/source/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](/source/Ten_Big_Paintings)'' exhibition to celebrate the opening of a new wing for the [Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.](/source/Auckland_Art_Gallery_Toi_o_Tamaki)<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](/source/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](/source/Auckland_Art_Gallery)<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](/source/Christchurch_Art_Gallery).<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](/source/Tony_Fomison) and [Philip Clairmont](/source/Philip_Clairmont), Hanly mentored the artist [Fatu Feu'u](/source/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](/source/Gil_Hanly) 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/New_Zealand_Who's_Who)'' listed his recreations as [kite flying](/source/kite_flying), sailing and [Greenpeace](/source/Greenpeace_Aotearoa_New_Zealand).<ref name=":1" />

Hanly died in [Auckland](/source/Auckland) on 20 September 2004, having suffered from [Huntington's disease](/source/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](/source/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>

==References==
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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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