Robert Hannaford

Robert Hannaford
Born in 1944 on the family farm at Riverton, South Australia, Robert Hannaford is today one of Australia's leading realist painters. A strong believer in direct observation of the subject with accurate and dashing draughtsmanship, his paintings are very confident and direct. Through economy, composition and light, new dimensions and attitudes are revealed.

Hannaford received no formal training as a painter, but sought the guidance of his great mentors, Sir Hans Heysen and Ivor Hele.

Says Hannaford "I have forever wanted to draw, paint and sculpt my reality. I am always amazed how such works expand my reality."

Hannaford was the Political Cartoonist on "The Advertiser from 1964 to 1967. He won the A.M.E. Bale Art Scholarship in 1969-73, and won the Doug Moran Portrait Prize in 1990. Winning Viewer Prize Archibald in 1991 and 1998, he has been at the forefront of Australian Portrait Awards. Hannaford was the inaugural "Fleurieu Prize" Winner in 1998.

Hannaford was again selected as a finalist for the 2002 Archibald Prize.

Most recently he has been commissioned to undertake the enormous task of painting the opening of Parliament for the Centenary of Federation, to be a companion for the famous Tom Roberts work.

Hannaford is also a committed lover of the Australian native flora and fauna and is the founder of the Bushland Conservation Company.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2000
Artarmon Galleries Sydney
1998
Hill-Smith Fine Art Adelaide
1996
Hill-Smith Fine Art Adelaide
1994
Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
1992
Barry Newton Gallery Adelaide
1989
Barry Newton Gallery Adelaide
Holdsworth Gallery Sydney

COMMISSIONS/SELECTED PORTRAITS:
Dame Joan Sutherland
Sir Donald Bradman
Sir Edward Woodward
Hon. Paul Keating, Ex Prime Minister
Jean Blackburn, VC Canberra University
Hon. Bob Hawke, Ex Prime Minister
Sir Gerard Brennen, Chief Justice of the High Court
Professor Rolf Prince