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Steve Hart
Biography
Steve Hart (1859–1880), a member of the 'Kelly gang', lived his whole short life in the country around Wangaratta.
1 portrait in the collection
Steve Waugh
Biography
Steve Waugh (b. 1965) became captain of the Australian cricket team when Mark Taylor retired in early 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Steve Irwin
Biography
Steve Irwin (1962-2006) achieved international fame as the 'Crocodile Hunter'.
1 portrait in the collection
Hedda Morrison
Biography
Hedda Morrison (1908-1991) was born Hedda Hammer in Stuttgart, Germany where she acquired her first Box Brownie at the age of 11.
1 portrait in the collection
Lindy Morrison
Biography
Lindy Morrison joined The Go-Betweens as drummer in 1980. After the band split up in early 1990, she teamed up with another ex Go-Between, Amanda Brown, in a group called Cleopatra Wong.
1 portrait in the collection
James Morrison
Biography
James Morrison (b. 1962), known internationally as a jazz recording artist, composer and flamboyant virtuoso performer, started to play the cornet at the age of seven.
1 portrait in the collection
Joe Byrne
Biography
Joe Byrne (1857-1880), born to Irish Catholic parents like the others in Ned Kelly’s ‘gang’, showed promise at school but left as a twelve year old, after his father died.
1 portrait in the collection
Grant McLennan
Biography
Grant McLennan and Robert Forster both sang and wrote songs for The Go-Betweens, and McLennan wrote one of their greatest, 'Cattle and Cane', recalling the rural Queensland environment of his youth.
1 portrait in the collection
Nathan Kelly
Biography
Nathan Kelly (b. 1976), photographer, studied fine arts at the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney before being named as one of Australia’s top 30 photography graduates by Australian Commercial Photography magazine.
3 portraits in the collection
Sylvia Breamer
Biography
Sylvia Bremer (also Breamer) (1897–1943), actor, was born in Double Bay, Sydney, in June 1897 into a British-Australian naval family.
2 portraits in the collection
Esther Erlich
Biography
Esther Erlich (b. 1955), a Melbourne-based painter, has been exhibiting since the early 1980s, often with the Libby Edwards Galleries in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the Barry Newton Gallery in Adelaide.
3 portraits in the collection
Russell Shakespeare
Biography
Russell Shakespeare (b. 1963) has photographed well-known Australians from a wide range of fields, including writers Tim Winton and Colleen McCullough, sports people Steve Waugh and Stephanie Gilmore, and former politicians Gough Whitlam and Bob Brown.
2 portraits in the collection
Dan Kelly
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas McIntyre
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Sergeant Michael Kennedy
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Lonigan
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection