1. Gil Hanly is best known for documenting protests and social movements in New Zealand's recent history.
10 Facts About Gil Hanly
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Gil Hanly grew up on a sheep farm between the sea and the town of Bulls, where the family worked hard to contribute.
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Gil Hanly was home schooled until the age of 12, when she was sent to Nga Tawa school in Marton.
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Gil Hanly attended the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Christchurch in the early 1950s, where she trained to be a painter.
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Gil Hanly started working for the feminist publication Broadsheet in 1972.
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Gil Hanly has taken photographs of the 1981 Springbok tour, the sinking of the Greenpeace ship The Rainbow Warrior, the protest at Bastion Point, and the 1984 land hikoi.
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Gil Hanly has documented the Queen Street riots and outrage at the murder of Teresa Cormack.
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In 1993 Gil Hanly was awarded a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.
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Gil Hanly was married to the painter Pat Gil Hanly until he died in 2004.
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Gil Hanly has two children with Pat, and her husband had another daughter in a different relationship.