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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.

The press conference, 2010

Still life with vanitas symbols (after David Bailly), 2008

Kevin Gilbert

Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993), Indigenous activist, writer and artist, wrote the first play by an Aboriginal person to be publicly performed in Australia.

2 portraits in the collection

Kevin Weldon AM

Kevin Weldon (1933-2023), businessman and philanthropist, spent his early years in Ingham in far north Queensland, where his father ran a car dealership.

1 portrait in the collection

Kevin Weldon, 1978

Gift of Kevin Weldon 2012

Kevin Gilbert, 1972

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Kevin Butler, c. 2000

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004

Kevin Connor, 1991

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Kevin Gilbert and Joe in discussion outside Anti-Bicentennial and Treaty Meeting Balmain Town Hall, Sydney, 1987

Gift of the artist 2010

Highway to Tiger, 2021

Purchased with funds provided by Hugo Michell & Brooke Michell 2025

Kevin at Midnight

Leo McKern as Dad Rudd, 1994 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Julia Gillard, 2013

Gift of the artist 2013

Goldheart