Pat Hanly 2012

Over a career spanning four decades, Pat Hanly (1932–2004) proposed a new manner of looking at New Zealand—the land and its people. His art heralded new ways of thinking about this country—as a nation that belonged to the young and the adventurous, to the dreamers and to those who could see the vital place the island nation could have within Polynesia and the broader Pacific.

This timely monograph celebrates a remarkable life’s work and acknowledges Hanly’s singular role within the history of New Zealand art. Featuring nearly 300 colour plates and over 50 photographs, it offers an unprecedented record of Hanly’s effervescent, brilliant paintings, many of which have achieved iconic status. It also takes us into the endlessly inventive world of his watercolours, prints and drawings, before widening its view to present his achievement as a muralist.

Alongside a major essay by Gregory O’Brien, which focuses on the artist’s immensely productive relationship with the city of Auckland, the book includes illuminating memoirs by four of Hanly’s closest friends: John Coley, Barry Lett, Quentin MacFarlane and Dick Ross. The large-scale plates—which represent works that have never been reproduced before, as well as Hanly’s best-known images—offer an emphatic account of what must stand as the most vivid, animated body of paintings by a single artist to have yet hailed from these shores.

Book launch at Auckland Art Gallery 2012

Design and Publication - Mei Ling Lee

Author - Gregory O’Brien

Publisher - Ron Sang Publications

Contributions from John Coley, Dick Ross, Quentin MacFarlane, Barry Lett

Principal Photographer/Editor - Gil Hanly

300 x 300mm hardcover with French-fold jacket
276 pages with 2 foldouts
190 full colour plates and 50 photographs

Standard Edition - 150gsm paper - Telephone Table 1973 on cover (Flowers)

Collectors' Edition - 170gsm paper - Doing It 1988 on cover (Figure)
Only 100 contained in a slipcase.

In addition, a reproduction of the cover image and box of cards are also included. Numbered and signed by all contributors.