PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland Acquired directly from the artist 1984

EXHIBITED
The Fire This Time, An Exhibition of Paintings and Photographs by Patrick and Gil Hanly, Manuwatu Art Gallery Touring Exhibition, Cat. no. 8, 1984 Original exhibition label affixed verso

The Fire This Time Series of paintings were created by Hanly between 1984-86. These works are a visual embodiment of their time, a time of deep concern, passionate protests and a plea for a nuclear free Pacific. Nuclear Free Pacific, was completed just a year before the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. The Greenpeace vessel was attached and sunk by the French DGSE whilst berthed at Auckland's Marsden Wharf.

Discussing this series of work Hanly commented to dealer, Rodney Kirk Smith: We are looking toward a Pacific free of nuclear fire, the holocaust - which was what the first Fire series was really about - just that. A Conversation with Pat Hanly, Art New Zealand 35, Winter 1985.