Australian icons all. Sidney Nolan, Nobel prize winner Peter, and naughty old Ned: all inextricably linked and all now brought together in one classic literary t-shirt.
Carey recalls becoming slightly obsessed with Nolan's Ned's when he first saw them in Australia at just 21, before explaining that it was his re-discovery of them at age 56 that inspired him to write his masterpiece. He goes on to describe Ned as Australia's 'imaginary founding father'. Which is rather a strange statement. Until you read the book. And realise that Ned's life was most definitely not 'entirely thrown away'.
This t-shirt salutes Ned Kelly: bank robber, horse thief, murderer, and man.