Brendan Kelly
b. 1970 Ryde, NSW, lives & works in Mullumbimby, NSWA Currency Lad 1, 2021
Signed lower left; inscribed outer edge
Acrylic, graphite, spray paint & photo collage on plywood
154 x 122cm
Currency lads and lasses were the first generations of native-born white Australians. Here we see Ned with eyes made from photographs of his plaster death mask, a reminder of his...
Currency lads and lasses were the first generations of native-born white Australians.
Here we see Ned with eyes made from photographs of his plaster death mask, a reminder of his eventual ruin, alongside images of the Sydney Harbour Bridge forming his torso, representing his future place of pride in the Nations heart.
The gold trimmed border of the work appears as a currency stamp playing on the notion of Ned Kelly as an Australian commodity.
Here we see Ned with eyes made from photographs of his plaster death mask, a reminder of his eventual ruin, alongside images of the Sydney Harbour Bridge forming his torso, representing his future place of pride in the Nations heart.
The gold trimmed border of the work appears as a currency stamp playing on the notion of Ned Kelly as an Australian commodity.
