Imagining Ned: exploring the truth and myth behind Australia's Che Guevara

The image of the steel-helmeted bushranger revolutionary has inspired generations of artists and film-makers. Now, a major new exhibition brings some of the most important works together to ask why Ned Kelly’s story still enduresNed Kelly has assumed a saint-like status – somewhere between Robin Hood and Che Guevara – in the 135 years since he was hanged, aged 25, in Melbourne. Rather like a holy statue, his story has been rubbed for luck so often that its original shape and attributes hav