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Kev Carmody
Biography
Acclaimed singer songwriter and activist Kevin Daniel Carmody (Kev Carmody) is a Bundjalung/Lama Lama man born in Cairns in 1946.
2 portraits in the collection
Songman, portrait of Kev Carmody, 2006
Peter Hudson
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on composition board
Courtesy of Kev Carmody, Song Cycles Pty Ltd.
Men of High Degree: Kev Carmody (Bundjalung/Lama Lama Peoples), 2023
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove, Richard Crampton
Portrait, original wet plate collodion process tintype, digital scan to Ultrachrome pigment on paper
Purchased 2023
Coveruncover, 2014
by Phoebe Carmody
General content
Finalist, MDPA 2014
Peter Hudson
Biography
Peter Hudson (b. 1950), is a landscape and portrait painter who lives and works in Maleny, Queensland.
5 portraits in the collection
Pub Rock
Your backstage pass to 70s and 80s sounds and scenes
Previous exhibition, 2020
Celebrate the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity.
Eye to eye
Previous exhibition, 2019
Eye to Eye is a summer Portrait Gallery Collection remix arranged by degree of eye contact – from turned away with eyes closed all the way through to right-back-at-you – as we explore artists’ and subjects’ choices around the direction of the gaze.
Paul Kelly and The Portraits
Previous exhibition, 2013
Aspects of singer songwriter Paul Kelly’s performance persona are communicated by portraits selected from a range of artists and leading music photographers in this focus exhibition.
Mal Meninga, 2018
by Peter Hudson
General content
Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018
Paul Kelly, 2007
Martin Philbey
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Paul Kelly, 2007
Peter Brew-Bevan
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2012
Paul Kelly, 2004
Jon Campbell
Portrait, synthetic polymer and enamel paint on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2004
Paul Kelly, 2013
Warwick Thornton
Portrait, single channel moving image, colour, sound, 8 minutes 54 seconds
Commissioned with funds provided by Ian Darling 2013
Paul Kelly AO
Biography
Paul Kelly AO (b. 1955), singer/songwriter and producer, grew up in Adelaide and made his performing debut in Hobart in 1974.
5 portraits in the collection
Dan Sultan
Biography
Dan Sultan (b. 1983), Arrernte/Gurindji singer/songwriter, grew up in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
A handful of sand
Magazine article by Ellen Kent, 2007
Ellen Kent examines the portrait of Vincent Lingiari and Prime Minister Gough Whitlam taken by photographer Mervyn Bishop.