Connection: William Faulkener

True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey

In 1964, 21 year-old Peter Carey was taken to see the see Sidney Nolan’s series of paintings of the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly. This legendary figure of Irish descent had come to symbolise, for many, the struggle of the oppressed white people of Australia. Nolan had found a way to portray him that was stark… Read more »