Exhibitions Archive
Blast! Pat Hanly - the painter and his protests28 August 2009 – 11 October 2009A generation ago in 1987, New Zealand passed legislation to make the country nuclear free. To celebrate this wonderful achievement writer, Trish Gribben and Lopdell House Gallery have published a children's book featuring Pat Hanly's anti-nuclear paintings and Gil Hanly's documentary photographs. The gallery will be showing an exhibition of the fabulous works featured in the book as well as Claudia Pond Eyley's excellent documentary, No Nukes is Good Nukes and Gil Hanly's Nuclear Free: Protest Photography. Pat Hanly's paintings are about passion and protest, light, love and life. He painted with many different styles and subjects but this book focuses on the work made in fear or protest about nuclear weapons. In the story of New Zealand's struggle to be nuclear-free no artist is more important than Pat Hanly. Pat Hanly was a small man with a big-hearted, wide-seeing view of the world. He was bold and brave. All through his life he painted and spoke up about political and social things that disturbed him, especially nuclear testing when France was exploding bombs at Moruroa, in French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean. With this book and exhibition, we hope to engage an audience of all ages and tell a very New Zealand story of the power of art to move hearts and minds. Blast! goes on tourLopdell House Gallery acknowledges the huge generosity of the Hanly Family Trust, Gil Hanly, Auckland Art Gallery, Claudia Pond Eyley and private collectors who have made it possible for this wonderful collection of Pat Hanly's art to tour New Zealand's public art galleries. If you missed it at Lopdell, here's the itinerary: 30 April - 27 June 2010
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Corner Titirangi & South Titirangi Roads, Auckland 0604
The gallery is open daily from 10am - 4.30pm, except Good Friday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day, Anzac Day morning and during exhibition installation. Admission is free thanks to the support of Waitakere City Council.