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Daddy Cool, Melbourne, 1974
Rennie Ellis
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph, selenium toned on paper
Purchased 2005
Tsering Hannaford
Biography
Tsering Hannaford (b. 1987) took up painting in her mid-twenties after attaining a degree in psychology at the University of Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Hannaford AM
Biography
Robert Hannaford AM (b. 1944), a largely self-taught artist, grew up on his family farm near the small South Australian town of Riverton before working as political cartoonist for the Adelaide Advertiser from 1964 to 1967.
6 portraits in the collection
Why portraiture?
Magazine article by Tsering Hannaford, 2024
Tsering Hannaford reflects on her experiences, process and motivation for making portraits.
Self portrait
Robert Hannaford AM
Image
Robert Hannaford, 2005
R. Ian Lloyd
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of R. Ian Lloyd 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Tim Flannery, 2006
Robert Hannaford AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Professor Tim Flannery 2016. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Tim Flannery by Robert Hannaford
'The space around'
Portrait story
Tim Flannery and artist Robert Hannaford discuss the creation of Tim's portrait.
Alexander Maurice Ramsay, 1978
Robert Hannaford AM
Portrait, oil on composition board
Gift of Janet, Andrew, Kathryn and Eleanor Ramsay, daughters and son of Alexander Maurice Ramsay and Amy Jane Ramsay 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Lowitja O'Donoghue, 2006
Robert Hannaford AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds donated by BHP Billiton Limited, Rio Tinto Aboriginal Fund, Newmont Australia Limited, Reconciliation Australia, Hon Paul Keating and Hon Fred Chaney 2006
Anatomist's eye
Magazine article by Diana Warnes, 2016
Robert Hannaford has completed around 400 portraits over the span of his career.
Stephanie Alexander AO, 2023
Tsering Hannaford
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2023
Dame Joan Sutherland, c. 1977
Robert Hannaford AM
Portrait, oil on board
Gift of William Bowmore AO OBE 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Ross Wilson
Biography
Ross Wilson (b. 1947), musician and producer, started playing in bands as a schoolboy, fronting the Pink Finks and the Party Machine in the late 1960s.
3 portraits in the collection
Joshua Ross
Biography
Joshua Ross (b. 1981) excelled at athletics as a child, but didn't take up sprinting in earnest until 2000, inspired by watching the Sydney Olympics on television.
1 portrait in the collection
Ross Watson
Biography
Ross Watson specialises in interpolating representations of lithe semi-naked men into copies of paintings by masters such as Vermeer, Ter Borsch, David and Bronzino.
2 portraits in the collection