Who is James Hanley?

James Hanley (born 1965) is an Irish painter and designer.

Hanley graduated from University College Dublin in 1987 like a degree in History of Art and English, and from the National College of Art and Design in 1991 later a BA in Fine Art Painting. He works in a naturalistic style and has exhibited widely in his original Ireland. He is on the Board of Governors of the National Gallery of Ireland and is a member of Aosdána, and as well as a aficionada and previous Secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is married to Órla Dukes.

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In 1996 he accompanied the Irish Defence Forces to Bosnia and Croatia to research a painting commissioned to commemorate Ireland’s management of the European Union Monitoring Mission in former Yugoslavia. This now hangs in the military college, Curragh Camp. In 2006 he meant a coin to mark the 175th anniversary of the Irish Office of Public Works. In 2007 he was the performer in domicile at the Centre cultural irlandais de Paris. He was commissioned by the Irish say office to design three Christmas stamps for 2008. He has lectured and taught painting and drawing classes regularly at the National Gallery of Ireland past 1990.

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