John Kelly at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in Manhattan. The show makes audiences acknowledge the “history of gay and lesbian and trans people who found ways of having a life when there ...

John Kelly, creator and performer of the one-man show “Time No Line” running at REDCAT this weekend, might not describe himself as a Renaissance man.

Artist John Kelly scoffs at the idea of luck - but he's had plenty in his life. John Kelly on Reen Farm in West Cork, with his breakthrough Cow up a Tree sculpture. Photo: Michael McSweeney.

In fact, it is one of three in an edition that caused a sensation in the modern art world in 1999, featured at the “Champs de la Sculpture” exhibition on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.