Tsering Hannaford

Tsering Hannaford is an Australian artist.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} In 2012 Tsering and her father Robert Hannaford were the "first father and daughter to show concurrently in Salon des Refusés, an exhibition of Archibald entries",^[6][7] and in 2015 they were the first father and daughter selected as finalists for the Archibald Prize.^[8][9] Tsering is a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Susannah Hannaford.

Tsering Hannaford was born to shoemaker Shirley Andris^[10] and artist Robert Hannaford, who were living in West Hindmarsh. Also in 1987, Robert Hannaford bought a disused farmhouse and outbuildings at Peters Hill in the Mid North of South Australia near Riverton and converted them into a house and studio.^[11]

Tsering grew up in Riverton and West Hindmarsh, and was educated at the University of Adelaide where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2008 and a Graduate Diploma in Art History in 2011.^[6][12][13]

Tsering Hannaford has been painting since infancy; at age four her father set up a studio for her. However, she also has had many other interests.

After finishing at University, Hannaford concentrated on painting. She specializes in portraiture, landscapes and still life painting.^[14] She became a full time artist in 2012.^[6]

She has been a finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Award three times (highly commended in 2014), a finalist in the A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize, a semi-finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, and hung twice (2012 & 2013) in the Archibald Salon des Refusés.^{[12][15][9][16]}

She was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2015,^[9] 2016,^[16] 2017,^[17] 2018,^[18] 2019, 2020 and 2021.^[19]

• 2012 – Archibald Salon des Refusés – Self-portrait^[20][7]
• 2012 – A.M.E Bale Art Prize (finalist)
• 2013 – Archibald Prize Salon des Refusés – Self-portrait^[21]
• 2013 – Portia Geach Memorial Award (finalist)
• 2013 – Inaugural RSASA Portrait Prize (finalist)
• 2013 – Helpmann Academy Emerging Artist Award (Winner)
• 2014 – Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art Adelaide Fringe (Winner)
• 2014 – Inaugural Kennedy Art Prize (finalist)
• 2014 – Portia Geach Memorial Award (finalist – Highly Commended)
• 2014 – A.M.E Bale Art Prize (finalist)
• 2014 – Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (Semi-finalist)
• 2015 – Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award (finalist)
• 2015 – RSASA Biennial Portrait Prize (finalist)
• 2015 – Archibald Prize finalist – Objet démodé^[22][9]
• 2015 – Portia Geach Memorial Award finalist – Portrait of Julia Townsend^[23][24]
• 2016 – "Works from New York City" Exhibition – Kyle^[25][26]
• 2016 – Archibald Prize finalist – Self-portrait with magnolia^[27][16]
• 2017 – Archibald Prize finalist – Self-portrait^[28][17]
• 2018 – Archibald Prize finalist – Self-portrait^[29][18]
• 2019 – Archibald Prize finalist – Mrs Singh (Portrait of Anant Singh)
• 2020 – Archibald Prize finalist – Self-portrait after 'Allegory of Painting'
• 2021 – Archibald Prize finalist – Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC

• 2022 – Archibald Prize finalist – Sally Scales^[30]
• 2024 – Archibald Prize finalists – Meditation on seeing (portrait of Dad)^[31]

• Official website
• John Dexter (17 February 2016). "Tsering Hannaford – Works from New York City". The Adelaide Review.
• The interview with Tsering Hannaford on the Art in Adelaide YouTube channel