CLiFF HANLEY

 

                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

a short history


Born in 1948 and spending his formative years in the west of Glasgow, Hanley had decided to be a painter by  the age of  nine, but  took an  interest  in  the  other  arts,  and produced  a  burlesque Hamlet in primary school. At 15 he held his first one-man show of paintings and drawings at the Grosvenor Cafe, in the centre of the City’s art and literature district. He studied at Glasgow School of  Art in the late ‘sixties, specialising in drawing and painting, although he  devoted  himself to other things - including playing in rock bands, designing  pop-art pubs, journalism  and drawing a sci-fi cartoon strip, for fifteen subsequent years. His active interest in socio-political change led to his being called The      
Anti-Christ, in the Glasgow Herald.
In 1986 Hanley would turn from session guitar work back to full time painting, winning the  prize for  Westminster  Artist  of  the Year, 1991. Since then by 2005 he had exhibited on average five  times a year in London, New York and more recently in Bath  and Bristol ; usually solo but often in group shows many  of which he has curated.
‘The ubiquitous Cliff Hanley’
     ‘The hardest working artist in Bristol’
              -Venue Magazine
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                                                                                                                                       Now closely involved with the Bristol arts scene, setting up exhibitions, recently presenting a radio arts programme