I Am Ned Kelly (Reprompt/Hallucination)
This work repeatedly transformed a few frames of data-moshed and compressed footage from Charles Tait's The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) through AI processes, allowing details to shift and mutate through cycles of reinterpretation. Memory becomes unstable as images are repeatedly generated and reimagined. Kelly is represented as both a material artefact and an evolving digital hallucination.
This 1-minute excerpt is from the exhibition I Am Ned Kelly, currently showing at @wayout.artspace Artspace, Kandos.
Gallery hours: Thursday–Sunday, 10am–2pm
A huge thank you to Ed from @elk_elektronik for the incredible collaboration and immersive ambient sound work that brings this piece to life.
We had such a blast over the weekend with the opening of Andy Robards' I Am Ned Kelly.
Massive thanks to everyone who came to the opening on Saturday and the tour on Sunday. Feedback is in and this one is worth the drive.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10-2
Opening today at 3!
I Am Ned Kelly by artist Andrew Robards; A solo exhbition.
A series of video, print, drawing, painting and installation works that explore the reconstruction of an Australian icon through repetition, distortion and machine interpretation
All are welcome, come and enjoy some refreshments in the gallery and celebrate this wonderful artist.
Tomorrow, Sunday, Robards will be hosting a tour of the exhibition. 11 o'clock, come for the coffee and stay for the talk!
I Am Ned Kelly is an ongoing series of moving-image and print works that reimagine Australia’s most mythologised outlaw through digital vandalism and cinematic decay. Drawing upon Charles Tait’s The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), I trace, glitch, datamosh, and loop fragments of surviving footage, pulling them away from the cinema screen and into new digital formations. Kelly’s armoured figure becomes unstable: duplicated, reversed, eroded, and digitally re-performed.
In these works, the Kelly myth collides with contemporary screen culture. Loops and reversals defy narrative closure, while browser-window frames replace the cinematic form. Glitched stills and RGB-tinted prints further corrupt the image, layering analogue decomposition with digital rupture. In this way, Kelly becomes both mythic rebel and a cyborg apparition, a figure of digital hooliganism who resists his own cinematic memorialisation.
Opening this Saturday
3-5pm
Andrew Robards
I Am Ned Kelly
WAYOUT Artspace
71 Angus Avenue Kandos
Join us.
OPENING THIS SATURDAY
I Am Ned Kelly
Andrew Robards
Through moving image and print, Robards reimagines the legend and myth of Ned Kelly.
Join us at the opening on Saturday 2nd from 3-5 at 71 Angus Avenue Kandos.
I Am Ned Kelly is opening soon at WAYOUT Artspace in Kandos @wayout.artspace
Opening Event
Saturday 2 May, 3–5pm (note the 3pm start)
Join us at the gallery for drinks and to celebrate the opening.
Artist Tour
Sunday 3 May, 11am
Come by for a coffee and a walkthrough of the exhibition.
Image: Andrew Robards, “I Am Ned Kelly (Captured 2)”, 2026, process documentation, spray paint and marker on film face panel, 120 × 119cm, photograph by @__annie__rose__
Excited to announce I Am Ned Kelly, opening at Wayout Artspace, Kandos.
A series of video, print, drawing, painting and installation works that explore the reconstruction of an Australian icon through repetition, distortion and machine interpretation.
Opening: Saturday 2 May, 3–5pm
Exhibition: 3 May – 12 July
Wayout Artspace, Kandos
We would like to congratulate Andrew Robards @andrewrobards on taking home the award for Best Regionally Made Short Film for The Remains!
The Remains played on our opening night @westgippslandartscentre in our Dark Regions session.
The Remains is Andrew's first narrative work, made with a combination of 16mm film and digitally with each shot beautifully crafted with artistic intent and features some great naturalistic performances alongside an incredible neo-noir aesthetic.
We look forward to hopefully seeing more narrative work from Andrew in the future!
#giff2026 #gippsland #shortfilmfestival #shortfilm
The Burning 🔥 with 🎥 by Aaron McLisky ACS @aaronmclisky now screening @wayout.artspace as part of The Beauty and The Terror.
So grateful to be part of such a powerful exhibition and an incredible group of artists. Huge thanks to @cloudbough for the invitation and for curating such a thoughtful, generous show.
If you’re in or around Kandos, don’t miss it.
MEET The Beauty and The Terror artst Andrew Robards. Based in Mudgee, Robards examines the figure of the “hooligan” through digital poetics and glitch aesthetics. His practice positions the Australian landscape and the screen as overlapping terrains where interruption, distortion, and reinterpretation take place. By employing glitch technology, Robards draws attention to the instability of digital representation and its potential to unsettle established cultural narratives.
Come see what all the fuss is about.
📍WAYOUT Artspace, 71 Angus Ave, Kandos NSW
🗓️ 17 January – 1 March
🕙 Fri–Sun, 10am–2pm
Curated by Gabrielle Bates (Kandos), the exhibition features Andrew Robards (Mudgee), Ben Lloyd (Kandos), Bridget Baskerville (Kandos), Ellie Kaufman (Captains Flat), Jo Shand (Murrurundi), Josephine Starrs (Sydney), Leon Cmielewski (Sydney), Jason Wing (Kandos) and Lulu Wulf (Bathurst). @bridgetgrace_art@elliekauf@jo_shand_art@andrewrobards@jasonwing1@luluflop@ben.lloyd.526@cloudbough
#TheBeautyAndTheTerror #RegionalArtsNSW #AustralianContemporaryArt #Kandos #videoinstallation
Opening this Saturday at WAYOUT, the Beauty & The Terror invites discomfort, reflection, and even goosebumps as it traverses hardcore grassroots customs, rituals and phenomena.
Curated by Gabrielle Bates (Kandos), the exhibition features Andrew Robards (Mudgee), Ben Lloyd (Kandos), Bridget Baskerville (Kandos), Ellie Kaufman (Captains Flat), Jo Shand (Murrurundi), Josephine Starrs (Sydney), Leon Cmielewski (Sydney), Jason Wing (Kandos) and Lulu Wulf (Bathurst).
📍WAYOUT Artspace, 71 Angus Ave, Kandos NSW
🗓️ 17 January – 1 March
🕙 Open Fri–Sun, 10am–2pm
Come see what lies beneath the surface.
#TheBeautyAndTheTerror #WAYOUTKandos #Bogan
@bridgetgrace_art@elliekauf@jo_shand_art@andrewrobards@jasonwing1@luluflop@ben.lloyd.526@cloudbough
Excited to be selected as a regional representative for the 2025 Sims Metal Waste 2 Art Regional Showcase to be held @wpccdubbo in September. My new work ‘Replay Loop (Screen Time)’ is currently on display @mudgeeartsprecinct as part of the Waste 2 Art Mid-Western exhibition open till August 4.
