Simon Barnard
Convict Temporary Tattoos
Convict temporary tattoos - fun for all the chain gang
Convicts pricked images into their skin with needles then rubbed the wounds with ink, soot and gunpowder to leave a permanent mark. Tattoos were very popular amongst convicts. They meant different things to different people.
Illustrated by Simon Barnard, author of Convict Tattoos and James Hardy Vaux’s 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang.
- Designed and illustrated by Simon Barnard
- Age suitability 3+
- Made in China
- Instructions included
- Do not use on sensitive or broken skin, or place near the eye area
About the illustrator
Simon Barnard was born and grew up in Launceston. He spent a lot of time in the bush as a boy, which led to an interest in Tasmanian history. He is a writer, illustrator and collector of colonial artifacts. He now lives in Melbourne. He won the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books in the 2015 Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year awards for his first book, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land. Convict Tattoos is his second book.
