Pat Hanly

[1] During this time Hanly took night classes and then enrolled as a non-diploma student at the Canterbury College School of Art in Christchurch in 1952.

[2] Hanly returned to New Zealand in 1962, and accepted a part-time position teaching drawing at the University of Auckland School of Architecture.

Hanly was also commissioned by Miles Warren to paint "Rainbow Pieces" for the Christchurch Town Hall in 1971.

[4] During his time at the Canterbury College School of Art, Hanly received the Turner Prize for landscape, open to students, in 1953.

[10][11] In 1998 Hanly and his family were interviewed for a television documentary about his life as an activist and painter called Pacific Ikon.