Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Chinese the devil lived in the

the devil lived in the great eastern forests on mainland Australia

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

including works by the eponym

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

Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Chinese the devil lived in theIn 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