![]() ![]() This widely circulated photograph of Kate Kelly was given to writer and bushranger enthusiast Edgar Penzig in the 1970s. So when I was chasing Kate Kelly through my research, I knew I would paint her story, but I never thought I would end up writing it. ![]() A painting from that series, Ned’s Burqa, was a finalist in the Blake prize. My creative practice has been visual art since the early 1990s, and in 2007 I produced a series of social commentary paintings that used Ned Kelly and other icons to ask questions about who we are as Australians. I have long had an interest in the Kelly family. I was instantly intrigued, and jumped down the rabbit hole of research, hot on Kate’s heels. But it wasn’t until 2010 that I discovered that the teenaged Kate had ridden as a decoy for and delivered news and supplies to the Kelly gang when they were on the run in north-east Victoria from 1878 to 1880. W hen I was a young person growing up in Forbes in the central west of New South Wales, my uncle told me that Kate Kelly, the younger sister to renowned bushrangers Ned and Dan Kelly, had lived in the town for a number of years. ![]()
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