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Aspects of singer songwriter Paul Kelly’s performance persona are communicated by portraits selected from a range of artists and leading music photographers in this focus exhibition.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2004
George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga (1957–2007) was a Yolngu singer, activist and a founding member of the Warumpi Band.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Sidney Kidman, pastoralist (1857-1935), is Australia's 'cattle king'.
2 portraits in the collection
George Tjungurrayi (b. c. 1943–1947) is a highly respected senior Pintupi artist.
2 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2021
William H. Bardwell, photographer, worked at various premises in Ballarat from 1858 until 1895.
1 portrait in the collection
Neil Murray (b. 1956), singer/songwriter, grew up in country Victoria, studied art and became a teacher.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Dr Anne Sanders previews the works in the new focus exhibition Paul Kelly and The Portraits.
Gift of Geoff Cousins AM 2007
Michael Desmond profiles the Australian songwriter and performer Neil Murray and his contribution to Australian music.
Francis Gardiner (Christie) (1830-c. 1903), bushranger, came to New South Wales with his family as a child.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Whitaker, English photographer, spent three years in Melbourne in the early 1960s, becoming friends with Mirka and Georges Mora, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer, the Heide crowd and Martin Sharp and Richard Neville.
1 portrait in the collection
Betsy (Bessie) Lee Cowie (1860–1950), 'Australia's Temperance Queen', spent the early part of her life in Daylesford, Victoria, one of the five children of Henry Vickery, a butcher and miner, and his wife Emma.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2017