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Bruce Spence (b. 1945), actor, made his film debut in the title role of Tim Burstall's Stork (1971), its title relating neatly, if coincidentally, to his 2.01m frame.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Percy Spence, born in Balmain, grew up in Fiji and began art classes in Sydney in about 1888.
1 portrait in the collection
Stuart Spence (b. 1960) born in Geelong, Victoria, established his career in Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s, as a magazine photographer specialising in celebrity portraiture.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Bruce Dawe AO (1930-2020), poet and teacher, was born in Fitzroy and worked as a labourer, clerk, sawmill hand, farmhand and postman before joining the RAAF in 1959.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Petty is best known as one of Australia's most influential political cartoonists.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Ruxton AM OBE (1926-2011) was the outspoken Victorian President of the Returned Services League from 1979.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Armstrong is a sculptor, painter, printer and charcoal artist. Since 1987 two of his chainsawed redgum sculptures have stood at the entrance to the National Gallery of Victoria.
2 portraits in the collection
Bruce Postle began his photojournalism career at Queensland Country Life and the Brisbane Courier Mail.
6 portraits in the collection
Bruce Weber, born 1946, is an internationally renowned American fashion photographer.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Pollard (b. 1936), gallerist, established the Pinocotheca Gallery in a St Kilda mansion in 1967, and relocated it to an old hat factory in Richmond in 1970.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Beresford (b. 1940), director, made his first film while an undergraduate at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s.
2 portraits in the collection