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

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

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Kevin Gilbert, 1972

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

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

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

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

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

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 2010

Gilbert Lau

Gilbert Lau AM

Melbourne Cantonese restaurateur Gilbert Lau (b. 1943) is renowned as the consummate host of the Flower Drum - for remembering your last visit, who you were with and what you ate.

1 portrait in the collection

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Gilbert Stuart

Gilbert Stuart was an American painter who arrived in London by way of Scotland in 1775.

1 portrait in the collection

Gilbert Lau

Gilbert Lau

Gilbert Lau

Gilbert Lau, c. 1998 (printed 2005)

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Professor Gilbert Murray, OM, Oxford

Professor Gilbert Murray, OM, Oxford

Professor Gilbert Murray, OM, Oxford

Professor Gilbert Murray, OM, Oxford, c. 1957 (printed 2000)

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Kevin Weldon

Kevin Weldon AM

Kevin Weldon (b. 1933), 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

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Hon. Kevin Rudd

Lord Viscount Sydney

Lord Viscount Sydney

Lord Viscount Sydney

Lord Viscount Sydney, c. 1790

John Young after Gilbert Stuart

Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Kevin Weldon

Kevin Weldon

Kevin Weldon

Kevin Weldon, 1978

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Kevin Weldon 2012

Kevin Butler

Kevin Butler

Kevin Butler

Kevin Butler, c. 2000

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004

Kevin Connor

Kevin Connor

Kevin Connor

Kevin Connor, 1991

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

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

Angela Belgiorno-Zegna, 2001 by Salvatore Zofrea

Intimate Portraits

Previous exhibition, 2002

Intimate Portraits is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that explore the less public side of portraiture

Percy, Reginald, Monty and George Faithfull, undated by Henry Dorner. Image courtesy the National Museum of Australia.

An affray which deserves particular mention

Ben Hall and his gang outdone, 6 February 1865

About Face article

Bushranger Ben Hall and his cronies held around 40 people hostage in a pub north-west of Goulburn, telling their captives ‘don’t be alarmed; we only came here for a bit of fun’.

Self portrait, 1957 by Sunarto P. R.

Masters of Modern Indonesian Portraiture

13 September 2014

Archived media releases 2014

Press releases for media

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