Tsering Hannaford


Tsering Hannaford is a South Australian artist. 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", and in 2015 they were the first father and daughter selected as finalists for the Archibald Prize.
Tsering is a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Susannah Hannaford.

Personal life

Tsering Hannaford was born in Adelaide in 1987 to shoemaker Shirley Andris 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. 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.

Career

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. She became a full time artist in 2012.
She has been a finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Award three times, 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 in the Archibald Salon des Refusés.
She was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Selected works