Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Chinese 1933 reproduction from hand-tinted glass

1933 reproduction from hand-tinted glass lantern – calico tote bag

The Tao Sublime catalogue features the latest temporary exhibition at the Art Gallery at Royal Park

Some succumbed to the brutality of life in a penal settlement and only a few would work in their trade

Turning his back on the sea

He expresses the interplay of his language with the colonists’ English and the different mythologies in dialogue between them

Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Chinese 1933 reproduction from hand-tinted glassIn the early nineteenth century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over two thousand boys who had been eking out a living on the streets of Britains towns and cities were transported to the Point Puer Boys Establishment in Van Diemens Land. There they were to be turned into productive colonial workers. Despite the rhetoric of reform, most of the boys endured unrelenting punishment