Robert Hannaford

Robert Lyall "Alfie" Hannaford is an Australian realist artist notable for his drawings, paintings, portraits and sculptures. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford.

Early life, education, and family Robert Lyall Hannaford was born and grew up on his family's farm in the Gilbert Valley near Riverton, South Australia, attending Riverton Primary and High Schools. Born to Claude and Vera (née Hoare), he has two elder brothers (Ian, footballer and architect, and Donald) and a younger sister (Kay). He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford.

He won a number of art competitions at primary school, and painted his first landscape painting in oils at 14.

He attended the Ballarat Technical Art School in 1967 and 1968, which was then under the School of Mines in Ballarat. He won the AME Bale Art Scholarship from 1969 until 1973. In order to keep the portraits together as a group, they were donated to the Tweed River Gallery. The ten subjects of the portraits are:

Recognition, honours and awards 1990 - Winner Doug Moran Portrait Prize, portrait of Riverton identity Bill (Francis Hogan) with Hannaford's dog Ochre, Tweed River Art Gallery 1992 - People's Choice Award at the Archibald Prize, 1991/92 with a portrait of Australian historian and professor Hugh Stretton 1996 - People's Choice Award at the Archibald Prize, 1996 with a self-portrait 1998 - People's Choice Award at the Archibald Prize, 1998 with a portrait of academic Rolf Prince 1998 - Inaugural winner of the Fleurieu Art Prize 2001 - Centenary Medal, "For service to the community through art" 2014 - Member of the Order of Australia, "For significant service to the visual arts as a painter and sculptor". 2014 - Lifetime Achievement prize at Ruby Awards Her mother is shoemaker Shirley Andris. Like her father, she specialises in portraiture, landscapes, and still life, and has been a finalist for the Archibald prize.

In February 2006 Hannaford was diagnosed with tongue and throat cancer, but was declared in remission by the end of the year. During this time he painted Self Portrait with Tubes, showing himself naked, with a feeding tube sticking out of his stomach. They own and operate Riverton Light Gallery and have exhibited in collaborative exhibitions. Selected works

Commissions

1972 - Sir Donald Bradman for the Marylebone Cricket Club 1977 - Dame Joan Sutherland for the Elizabethan Theatre Trust 1977 - Elma Casely for the University of South Australia 1980 - John Jefferson Bray for the University of Adelaide 1982 - Brodie Thomas Howard for the Howard Family fifth generation Kangaroo Island and current winemaker for Dudley Wines 1997 - Paul Keating for Historic Memorials Committee, Parliament House, Canberra 1998 - Bronze sculpture of Sir Donald Bradman located in the Creswell Gardens (adjacent to the eastern entrance to the Adelaide Oval), for Adelaide City Council 2000 - Bob Hawke for the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, University of South Australia 2001 - The Centenary of Federation 2001 painting, commissioned by the Australian Government 2010 - Bronze sculpture of Roy Rene, located on Hindley Street, Adelaide, commissioned by Adelaide City Council 2012 - Bronze sculpture of Simpson and his donkey, located in the Angas Gardens (north-east of Creswell Gardens), commissioned by Defence Force Health Services 2013 - Bronze sculptures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander War Memorial, located adjacent to the Torrens Parade Ground

Other portraits on public display 1978 - Sir Thomas Playford, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Adelaide 1978 - Alexander Maurice Ramsay, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 1985 - Gavin Walkley, St Mark's College, North Adelaide 1987 - Tom (Hannaford), Tweed River Art Gallery 2006 - Lowitja O'Donoghue, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2007 - John Bannon, St Mark's College, North Adelaide Vice-Chancellors of the University of Adelaide, Mitchell Building, Adelaide Geoffrey Badger (1967–1977) Donald Stranks (1977–1986)

Archibald Prize Finalist Hannaford's work has been selected as an Archibald Prize finalist many times: 1992 - Portrait of Hugh Stretton (Winner: People's Choice 1991/92) 1993 - Peter van Rood (Image) 1994 - Self Portrait 1995 - Jarinyanu David Downs, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (Image) 1996 - Self Portrait (Winner: People's Choice 1996) 1996 - Cheryl Hurst 1997 - Paul Davies 1998 - Paul Keating (Image) 1998 - Rolf Prince (Winner: People's Choice 1998) (Image) 1999 - Robert Dessaix (in my studio), National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (Image) 2001 - Richard Maurovic 2002 - Lynda Syddick Napaltjarri (Image) 2003 - Rabbi Raymond Apple (Image) 2004 - Self-portrait (Image) 2005 - Bob Brown (Image) 2006 - Tim Flannery (Image) 2007 - Tubes (Self-portrait) {Image} 2008 - Alison Mitchell (portrait of artist's wife) (Image) 2009 - Self-portrait (Image) 2010 - Malcolm Fraser (Image) 2015 - Self-portrait (Image) 2017 - Michael Chaney (Image) 2018 - Self-portrait (Image)

2022 – Self-portrait Archibald Salon des Refusés

The Archibald Salon des Refusés is an exhibition which shows Archibald Prize entries that have been selected to hang in the prize exhibition. 2011 - Trevor Jamieson (People's Choice Award) 2014 - Phillip Adams 2016 - Self-portrait