Pat Hanly exhibition at SOFA Gallery
14 January 2011
The SOFA Gallery will host the first public exhibition of a series of paintings by UC alumnus Pat Hanly.
The SOFA Gallery will host the first public exhibition of a series of paintings by UC alumnus Pat Hanly.
The exhibition, called Pat Hanly: The Seven Ages of Man, focuses on a series of seven paintings commissioned from Hanly (1932-2004) by Hamish Keith for the Medical School Link Building at the University of Auckland where they have been on permanent display since 1975.
This will be the first time the paintings, being toured by the University of Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery, have been publicly exhibited or seen together.
The paintings were completed during a decade in which Hanly also completed a number of major commissions, including murals for the Christchurch Town Hall and the Auckland International Airport.
Hanly studied at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts. From 1963 he taught drawing at the University of Auckland School of Architecture, where another mural was commissioned in 1982. He retired his lectureship in 1992 and stopped painting soon after.
The exhibition, curated by Andrew Clifford, will run from 20 January to 20 February. The SOFA Gallery, the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts art gallery in the Christchurch Arts Centre, is open Monday to Friday 11am-5pm and Saturday and Sunday 12pm-4pm.
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