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Steve Kilbey, 1981 (printed 2018)
Gary Ede
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018
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
Steve Waugh, 2001
Russell Shakespeare
Portrait, direct positive colour photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Steve Irwin, 2005
Robin Sellick
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
The Destruction of the Kelly gang (from The Australasian Sketcher, 17 July 1880), 1880
Tom Carrington, The Australasian Sketcher
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2017
Crikey!
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2006
Robin Sellick captured a rare moment of quietude from the late conservation star Steve Irwin.
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
Oz Indie
Under the Milky Way tonight
General content
It was the era of recording your favourite songs directly from the radio; of seeing the latest acts and clips on Countdown; and when the Aussie bands you saw on TV and heard in the charts were the ones you could see live at the pub.
Portrait 22
December 2006 - February 2007
Magazine
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Frank Packer, unconventional portraits of Prime Ministers, Glenn McGrath, Sam Haskins, Steve Irwin and more.
Tim Flannery
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 2016
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
2019
Portrait Donors
The outlaws coolly disported themselves
Ned Kelly & co at Euroa, 9 and 10 December 1878
About Face article
'Each man arrayed himself in a new rig from head to foot, and even such luxuries as soaps and perfumery were not despised'
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