'I feel honoured I can help him tell his story': the death-row drawings of Charlie Flannigan | Art
The drawings were uncovered by accident. Curator and historian, Muran man Don Christophersen had been researching another prisoner when he found them at the South Australian Museum. Official records from the time portray Flannigan as a cowardly and cruel man, citing a dispute over a card game as his motive for Crokerâs murder â but Christophersen believes there was something deeper at play. âIt wasnât the card game, the card game was just the spark. There was something underlying and we will probably never know what it was,â he says. Perhaps, for instance, Flannigan k...
Source: theguardian.com