Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen picks out some unsettling sensory moments in the new colony. There are skirmishes and outright battles between the Aboriginal clans and some of the white settlers. In a nod to Hieronymus Bosch, a giant ear listens in fear in this strange land, while the newly built windmills whoosh violently through the air - signalling that the industrial revolution has arrived in Sydney. A figure lies either drunk or dead, another leaves the colony in search of hope, and a judge lords it over the convicts. In the foreground a woman sits like some exotic bird. The experiment in Sydney Cove has a dark monstrous side, while in the blackness of night soldiers, convicts and marines alike steal food from both public and private gardens despite fear of death.