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Slim Dusty OBE
Biography
Slim Dusty AO MBE (1927-2003) (David Gordon Kirkpatrick) is Australia's most prolific recording artist, and his travelling show has become an Australian tradition.
2 portraits in the collection
Slim Dusty at Carlton Hill Station, WA, 1993
John Elliott
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Slim Dusty and Dame Edna Everage, Carlton Hill Station, WA, 10 July 1993, 1993
John Elliott
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Kelly Dixon
Biography
Kelly Dixon is one of Australia's best-known bush balladeers. His poems have been set to music by some of Australia's leading country music stars - including Slim Dusty, who recorded Kelly's classic "Leave Him Out There in the Longyard." Kelly's verses have been collected in the books From a Drifter's Pen and From Under the Cross.
1 portrait in the collection
Dusty and Jed, 2015
by Louise Whelan
Image
Kelly Dixon, Tent Hill, Qld, 2004
John Elliott
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Stan Coster
Biography
Stan Coster (1930-1997) was one of Australian country music's greatest songwriters.
1 portrait in the collection
Stan Coster, Manilla, NSW, 1994 (printed 2004)
John Elliott
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Lee Kernaghan OAM
Biography
Lee Kernaghan (b.1964) is a country music singer and songwriter. Born in Victoria, son of travelling country music artist and impresario Ray Kernaghan, Lee Kernaghan grew up in the Riverina area of New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Rarely Everage
The Lives of Barry Humphries
Previous exhibition, 2002
The exhibition begins with Barry's childhood in Camberwell, Melbourne and chronicles his days as a struggling actor in Australia and England, his creation of characters including Barry McKenzie, Dame Edna Everage, Sandy Stone and Sir Les Patterson
Chad Morgan, Sunshine Coast, Qld, 2004
John Elliott
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Chad Morgan OAM
Biography
Chadwick William Morgan OAM (1933-2025) performed comic country songs for more than 60 years.
2 portraits in the collection
Lee Kernaghan near Broken Hill, 2005
Ian Jennings
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Heather McKean
Biography
Joy McKean OAM (b. 1930) and Heather McKean (b. 1932), country music performers, taught themselves to play various instruments and yodel.
1 portrait in the collection
Jim Conway
Biography
Jim Conway, harmonica player, composer and music producer, grew up in Melbourne and attended Camberwell High School before beginning his career with the frenetic jug outfit, the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, in the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection
Joy McKean OAM
Biography
Joy McKean OAM (1930-2023) and Heather McKean (b. 1932), country music performers, taught themselves to play various instruments and yodel.
1 portrait in the collection