Brendan Kelly
b. 1970 Ryde, NSWLast Look Kelly, 2021
Signed lower left
Acrylic on plywood
122x122cm
Ned Kelly was captured during first light at the Glenrowan Siege on the 28th June 1880, after a night where everything went wrong for the Kelly gang. Joe Byrne was...
Ned Kelly was captured during first light at the Glenrowan Siege on the 28th June 1880, after a night where everything went wrong for the Kelly gang.
Joe Byrne was the first to die when a stray bullet passed between a gap in his armour, severing an artery in his groin. It appears that Dan Kelly and Steve Hart took their own lives, they were found lying on the floor next to each other on their backs with their heads leaning up against a rolled up rug. Some say they took poison.
Ned, still clad in armour, stumbled out the back door of the Glenrowan Hotel into the bushes where he rested briefly until his final showdown with the police.
He was taken alive and eventually sentenced to death by hanging.
Joe Byrne was the first to die when a stray bullet passed between a gap in his armour, severing an artery in his groin. It appears that Dan Kelly and Steve Hart took their own lives, they were found lying on the floor next to each other on their backs with their heads leaning up against a rolled up rug. Some say they took poison.
Ned, still clad in armour, stumbled out the back door of the Glenrowan Hotel into the bushes where he rested briefly until his final showdown with the police.
He was taken alive and eventually sentenced to death by hanging.