Hanly House

  • Pat, Gil and baby Ben, London, late 1950s
  • Pat Hanly, Bride Groom Accidents, 1990, screenprint, lithograph, stencil, Credit Line Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 1990
  • Pat and Gil Hanly with their three children Ben, Tamsin and Amber (back row), daughter-in-law Suzanne (left) and grandson Micheal.
  • A screenprint with two green palm trees in a yellow cloud on a half blue, half brown baackground. below is a five sailed boat in a red sea. There is a rainbow on the left.
    Pat Hanly, Pacific hope vessel, 1984, screenprint, watercolour, ballpoint pen, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 1990.
  • Gil Hanly, The day after the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, 1985
  • Pat Hanly, Pacific Condition, 1976, enamel on board, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1977
  • Gil and Lillian 2021. Film still from Fifty Percent, Lillian Hanly / Sara Shirazi https://loadingdocs.net/short/fifty-percent/
  • Gil Hanly, Waitangi Day demonstrations
  • Pat Hanly, Energy, 1971, ink on paper, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2017
  • The Hanly family home. View from the back garden.

The Vision

An artists’ residency, studio and cultural space

The house, alongside Gil’s bespoke Stanish and Green designed studio and extensive garden, will operate as a living House Museum and Artists’ Residency. It will support New Zealand and international practitioners of art, architecture, photography, and other creative or cultural pursuits through a residency program.

The Artists’ Residency programme aims to support a mid-career artist for a year at a time, enabling them to live rent free in Mt Eden, to create work in Gil Hanly’s studio, and to build relationships with local schools and community.

Hanly House will run an economically sustainable programme. A ‘no rent, no stipend’ artist residency model will reduce operational overheads for the project, while supporting art making in Tāmaki Makaurau.

An oasis of tranquility in an
an intensifying inner city region

The Walters Road region is planned for long term intensification, with apartments built within walking distance to the local Train Station.

With each passing decade this project will increase in value to the community, domestic and international tourists and local schools.

Gil’s exceptional sub-tropical garden would provide a desirable green space as a perfect Pocket Park for contemplation, bird sanctuary and oxygen generation in an intensely built-up zone.

A research space and museum

Gil’s architecturally designed garden studio, painted a Frida Khalo purple, is currently home to her meticulous archive of photographic material. It documents our changing social cultural landscape.

Auckland Museum is the kaitiaki of many of her original prints and her negatives. The remainder of her archive, including all her garden images, will be housed within the house and operate as a research space, by appointment.

The House Museum will open to the public on open days during city wide events like Heritage Week and Aotearoa Art Fair.