11 May 2020
Pat Hanly's paintings are about passion and protest, light, love and life. He painted with many different styles and subjects… but In the story of New Zealand's struggle to be nuclear-free no artist is more important than Pat Hanly.
Hanly also gained a national reputation as a waterborne protester, taking out his small trailer-sailer onto the Auckland harbour to protest against the arrival of any nuclear powered vessel, His sailboats, which first appeared in the ‘Fire Series’ are symbols of the freedom he experienced on the waters of the harbour.
Excerpt from Lopdell House Gallery, Exhibitions Archive; BLAST- Pat Hanly, the painter and his protest (2009)
