Pat Hanly - Seven Ages of Man

The seven paintings in Pat Hanly's Seven Ages of Man, showing at Tauranga Art Gallery 28 August - 10 October, were commissioned in 1975 by Hamish Keith for the University of Auckland's then-new Medical School 'Link' building in Auckland, where they have been ever since, one on each floor. They have never been exhibited publicly before or seen together, but have been brought together for their gallery debut while extensive refurbishment takes place at the University.

Pat Hanly (1932 - 2004) studied art at the Canterbury School of Fine Art. It was there he met Hamish Keith. Hanly, his wife Gil Taverner, and colleagues Bill Culbert, Edward Bullmore and Hamish Keith would later spend time together in London.

Hamish Keith is a writer, art curator, arts consultant and social commentator, who has been writing about and working with the arts in New Zealand for almost half a century.

Keith has been a regular radio and television broadcaster, making the first television programme on New Zealand art, Waterfall to Waterfall in 1962. He has published a number of books on cultural and social history and cooking as well as the arts. Keith's arts documentary, The Big Picture, garnered three nominations at the 2008 New Zealand Screen Awards, and won Best Series and Best Music awards.