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Highway to Tiger, 2021

Purchased with funds provided by Hugo Michell & Brooke Michell 2025

The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd

An Australian story

In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.

Phil May

Phil May (1864–1903), cartoonist, was born in Leeds and educated there before his family’s financial circumstances saw him leave school and start work at age thirteen.

1 portrait in the collection

Nic, 2010

Millie, 2012

Northern exposure

Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.

The press conference, 2010

Phil (Phil May), 1895

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Alf Vincent

Alfred Vincent began working for the Bulletin in 1896, taking over from the renowned Phil May, his idol, with whom he was often - inevitably - unfavourably compared.

1 portrait in the collection

Leo McKern as Dad Rudd, 1994 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

David Armstrong, B.A., B. Phil., 1959

Gift of Jennifer Armstrong 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Tommy Emmanuel

Tommy Emmanuel AM (b. 1955), guitarist, was taught to play by his mother and is said to have been a working musician by the age of six.

1 portrait in the collection

Julia Gillard, 2013

Gift of the artist 2013

Headspace 6

The sixth in the National Portrait Gallery’s series of student exhibitions, will feature 200 portrait artworks, both two and three-dimensional, from secondary school students from across Australia

1 to 6

The National Portrait Gallery's annual survey of student self portraiture highlights the processes of personal inquiry through portraiture by students from all levels across Australia.