Series of three collages of digital prints on paper with tarlatan and tacks
Each 50x40cm framed
While men prisoner learned trade skills and mostly worked at useful activities women’s work was ‘solely that of scrubbing, cleaning, washing and needlework of the most hideous and dreary description. After working at needlework from 9- 12 the 2-4 they were compelled to go to bed at 5pm. They were locked up with no lighting. They could not work in the workshops, garden or use the library as the men could, nor could they use the schoolroom’ (Rose Scott 1896).
The women ate their meals in a yard beside their cellblock (D Wing) and worked at needlework in a adjoining building. The women’s cellblock was connected to the chapel by an elevated walkway into the upper floor. It was unsewered until 1891, frequently infested with vermin and had very narrow unglazed windows until the 1890s.