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James Hanley Curriculum Vitae

Selected Portrait Commissions

• State Portrait of the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern TD (OPW)
• Inauguration of President Mary McAleese (OPW)
• Lt. General Colm E. Mangan, Chief of Staff, Defence Forces
• Lt. General David Stapleton, Chief of Staff, Defence Forces
• Senator Maurice Hayes, commissioned by Ireland Funds
• Hon. Justice John L. Murray, Chief Justice, King’s Inns
• Dr. John Neill, Archbishop of Dublin, Church of Ireland
• Dr. Desmond Connell DD, Archbishop of Dublin
• Dr. Art Cosgrove, President, UCD
• Dr. Roger Downer, President Emeritus, UL
• John O’Connor, President Emeritus, UL
• Michael Butler, President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Professor Niall O’Higgins, President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Professor Gerry O’Sullivan, President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Dr. John Kirker, Past President, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland
• Carey Clarke PPRHA Past President of the Royal Hibernian Academy
• Ronnie Delany, Olympic Gold Medalist, National Gallery of Ireland
• Maureen Potter, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
• Conor Brady, former editor, The Irish Times
• Cathal O’Shannon, broadcaster & journalist
• Professor Dervilla Donnelly, Past President Royal Dublin Society
• Professor John Clarkson, Dean of School of Dentistry, TCD
• Professor Donald Leach CBE, Principal, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
• Professor Desmond Archer OBE
• Posthumous portrait of Professor Augustine Martin, UCD
• Posthumous portrait of Professor James Hamilton Delargy, UCD
• Girvan Dempsey
• The Prince of Stigliano, Don Prospero Colonna
• David Kingston, MD, Irish Life & Permanent
• Laurence Crowley
• Brian Coyle

Selected Commissions

2009

An Post modern Irish playwright stamps

2008

An Post Christmas stamps

2007

An Post commemorative stamp, St. Charles of Mount Argus

2006

An Post commemorative stamp, Celtic scholar Johann Caspar Zeuss

Corporate box set print for the musical The Pirate Queen

Commemorative coin design for 175th Anniversary of OPW

Commemorative print of Ronnie Delany’s 50th Anniversary of his Melbourne gold medal, commissioned by Arthritis Ireland

Cover design for Headgear album Flight Cases

2004

Triptych Abbey 100: Authorship, Acting, Audience, commemorating the Abbey Theatre’s Centenary, commissioned by John McColgan & Moya Doherty

Commemorative Print for the National College of Ireland

2000

Presentation pieces for Riverdance Broadway

1999

Suite of drawings of buildings constructed by John Paul Construction, commissioned for presentation to John Paul

1998

Suite of works on paper for the Newman Room, Commons Restaurant

1997

Paintings for Disney TV movie Oliver Twist

1996/97

Research trip to Bosnia and Croatia with Defence Force personnel, for triptych Vukovar, Sarajevo, Mostar commissioned by the Defence Forces to commemorate their Presidency of the European Community Monitoring Mission (ECMM) in the former Yugoslavia

1996

Suite of drawings for the film The Nephew

1994

Painting to commemorate 10 years of Arts Day in UCD

1993

Painting Eternal Optimist for foyer of National Lottery

1992

Painting commission for UCD Engineering block

Three paintings on Joycean themes for Newman House, UCD

Mural for Dublinia, Synod Hall, Christchurch

Collections

• National Gallery of Ireland
• Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Arts Council of Ireland
• Contemporary Irish Arts Society
• National Self-Portrait Collection
• Royal Hibernian Academy
• Royal Dublin Society
• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Royal College of Physicians in Ireland
• OPW Dáil Eireann
• OPW Dublin Castle
• OPW Department of Enterprise & Employment
• OPW Department of Arts, Sport & Tourism
• OPW The Four Courts, Dublin
• European Parliament Strasbourg
• European Court of Justice
• British Museum
• Municipal Art Museum, Akureyri
• Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
• Allied Irish Bank Ltd.
• Irish Life & Permanent Insurance
• AXA Insurance
• The National Lottery
• Chester Beatty Library
• Newman House Dublin
• University College Dublin
• University of Limerick
• Society of the King’s Inns
• Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business
• Queen Margaret College Edinburgh
• The Abbey Theatre
• The Gaiety Theatre
• Mater Hospital
• McKee Barracks
• Military College Curragh Camp
• UN School Curragh Camp
• Portmarnock Golf Club
• Church of Ireland, Christchurch Cathedral
• Diocese of Dublin, Pro-Cathedral House
• Wesley College Dublin
• School of Dentistry, Trinity College Dublin
• The Irish Times
• Watercolour Society of Ireland
• John Paul Construction
• Athlone RTC
• Carlow RTC
• Olympic Council of Ireland
• Athletics Association of Ireland

Other Information

• Elected to Board of Governors of National Gallery of Ireland, 2009
• Elected to Aosdána, 2008
• Secretary of RHA 2001 to 2008
• Member of Cultural Relations Committee, 1999-2004
• Contributed articles to Irish Arts Review & National Gallery of Ireland publications
• Catalogue introduction to solo exhibitions by Isobel Henihan & Eugene Conway
• Curated Inaugural RHA Members Drawing Show, 2005
• Curated Fusion, group show of contemporary Irish art, Dunamaise Arts Centre, 2000
• Trustee of RHA Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award
• Editor RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogue 2002 to 2008
• Judge on Taylor Art Award, 2003, 2004
• Part-time Tutor/Lecturer NCAD, 1995-1998
• Visiting Lecturer Dun Laoghaire, 1998
• Part-time Tutor/Lecturer National Gallery of Art, 1990 to date
• Judge of Arnotts Portrait Award, 1999