30/04/2026
I Am Ned Kelly is an ongoing series of moving-image and print works that reimagine Australia’s most mythologised outlaw through digital vandalism and cinematic decay. Drawing upon Charles Tait’s The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), I trace, glitch, datamosh, and loop fragments of surviving footage, pulling them away from the cinema screen and into new digital formations. Kelly’s armoured figure becomes unstable: duplicated, reversed, eroded, and digitally re-performed.
In these works, the Kelly myth collides with contemporary screen culture. Loops and reversals defy narrative closure, while browser-window frames replace the cinematic form. Glitched stills and RGB-tinted prints further corrupt the image, layering analogue decomposition with digital rupture. In this way, Kelly becomes both mythic rebel and a cyborg apparition, a figure of digital hooliganism who resists his own cinematic memorialisation.
Opening this Saturday
3-5pm
Andrew Robards
I Am Ned Kelly
WAYOUT Artspace
71 Angus Avenue Kandos
Join us.
