Joe Byrne's Corpse Dancing was included in the innovative and lauded Adam Cullen: Iron Mask: The Ned Kelly Series exhibition in London in 2010. The works in this series, completed between 2008 and 2010, reinterpret the mythology surrounding Ned Kelly. This series provides a more irreverent and bipartisan perspective than that of Sidney Nolan's Kelly Series and, interestingly, Nolan is one of the few artists that Cullen respected. This is a gripping self portrait of Cullen as Kelly's famous death mask.

One of the original death masks thought to be of Kelly is on display in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Cullen's images have shock value. They are confronting, unsettling, often monstrous. The artist has suggested ...