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Kevin Gilbert
Biography
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
Kevin Gilbert, 1972
Evelyn Kirwan
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, 1987
Juno Gemes
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2010
Gilbert Lau AM
Biography
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
Gilbert Stuart
Biography
Gilbert Stuart was an American painter who arrived in London by way of Scotland in 1775.
1 portrait in the collection
Gilbert Eric Douglas
Biography
Gilbert Eric Douglas (1902–1970), pilot and air force officer, took part in Sir Douglas Mawson’s British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), which took the form of two ocean voyages conducted over the southern summers of 1929–30 and 1930–31.
1 portrait in the collection
Gilbert Lau, c. 1998 (printed 2005)
Kate Gollings
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Eric Douglas, c. 1930
Frank Hurley OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Sally Douglas 2009
Still life with vanitas symbols (after David Bailly), 2008
by Kevin Best
Image
Lord Viscount Sydney, c. 1790
John Young after Gilbert Stuart
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Kevin Weldon AM
Biography
Kevin Weldon (1933-2023), 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
The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd
Biography
An Australian story
Magazine article by The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd, 2009
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
Kevin Weldon, 1978
Graeme Inson
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Kevin Weldon 2012
Kevin Butler, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Kevin Connor, 1991
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.