The story behind the creation of the portrait of singer-songwriter Paul Kelly by the artist Jon Campbell.
Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
A companion to our 2013 exhibition Paul Kelly & The Portraits. For Year 7 to Year 12 students.
Paul Kelly & The Portraits presents a multifaceted image of the performer over the course of his career.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Commissioned with funds provided by Westpac Group and Optus 2018
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
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
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
Peter Hudson (b. 1950), is a landscape and portrait painter who lives and works in Maleny, Queensland.
5 portraits in the collection
This issue features Paul Kelly, Rineke Dijkstra, John Brack, the National Photographic Portrait Prize and more.
