Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Products manufactured a die-cast "Ned Kelly" repeating cap pistol, which was widely marketed in the mid-1940s. Its design bore no obvious attempt at historic relevance. The distinctive homemade armour Kelly wore for his final unsuccessful stand against the police was the subject of a famous series of paintings by Sidney Nolan. Ned Kelly is a recurring theme in the work of Ha-Ha (Regan Tamanui), one of Melbourne's foremost street artists. Since 2002, he has put up many stencils of Ned Kelly's face in the laneways of Melbourne, which have become an icon of Melbourne street art. He described Kelly as
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly 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" premiered at Queensland Theatre Company, focusing on Ned