Port Arthur Separate Prison

  • Name Port Arthur Separate Prison
  • Client Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority
  • Country Pydarerme
  • Location Port Arthur, TAS
  • Year 2005 - 2010

The 1849 Separate Prison is chilling evidence of the 19th century’s moral phobias and experimental initiatives. Based on Quaker principles of penitence brought about by silence and control, it was a strict machine to subdue convicts. Ruined by bushfires in 1895, the Prison has had a series of confusing, ad-hoc conservation measures. The stonework was in poor condition and the small range of original timber and iron elements was overlaid with reconstructions from the 1970s.

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Team

Peter Tonkin, Julie Mackenzie, Trina Day, Wolfgang Ripberger, Antonia Bromhead, Roger O’Sullivan.

Collaborators

TZG Heritage.

Consultants

Peter Emmett, X- Squared, PAHSMA.

Photographer

Brett Boardman.

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Peter Tonkin, Julie Mackenzie, Trina Day, Wolfgang Ripberger, Antonia Bromhead, Roger O’Sullivan. 2010, port arthur, TAS, prison, heritage, adaptive reuse, public

TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Always was, always will be.

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