Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018
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
Steve Waugh (b. 1965) became captain of the Australian cricket team when Mark Taylor retired in early 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Steve Irwin (1962-2006) achieved international fame as the 'Crocodile Hunter'.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
Purchased 2017
Robin Sellick captured a rare moment of quietude from the late conservation star Steve Irwin.
Grant McLennan and Robert Forster both sang and wrote songs for The Go-Betweens, and McLennan wrote one of their greatest, 'Cattle and Cane', recalling the rural Queensland environment of his youth.
1 portrait in the collection
It was the era of recording your favourite songs directly from the radio; of seeing the latest acts and clips on Countdown; and when the Aussie bands you saw on TV and heard in the charts were the ones you could see live at the pub.
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Frank Packer, unconventional portraits of Prime Ministers, Glenn McGrath, Sam Haskins, Steve Irwin and more.