Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly a "significant respect for authority". Former criminal and celebrity Chopper Read produced numerous paintings of Ned Kelly, alluding directly to Sidney Nolan's imagery. One of Read's paintings features Kelly with a woman's breasts. He explained that "it relates to the fact that I think Kelly was a homosexual, ... I'm not really a fan of his. I'm tired of people calling me the modern-day Ned Kelly." However, Read compared himself with Kelly in some of his paintings. One such self-portrait titled "Tast Ful Old Criminal" ["sic"] was purchased amid controversy by the State Library of Victoria in 2003. "The Story
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly “Australian” by a US Marshall accompanying the players. Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Ned Kelly was a 19th-century Australian outlaw and bushranger whose life has inspired numerous works in the arts and popular culture, especially in his home country where he is viewed by some as a Robin Hood-like figure. A melodrama, "The Kelly Gang", by Arnold Denham, was popular in Australia in the late 1890s. Other plays inspired by the story include: "Ned Kelly", a large-scale musical by Reg Livermore and Patrick Flynn, played in Adelaide and Sydney in 1977 and 1978. In 2012, Matthew Ryan's stage play "Kelly"