Cuillin Bantock
Painter
Recollections of Barnt Green 1942-1955
Bounty: A Case of Preposterous Optimism
In 2005 Cuillin Bantock initiated a project round the voyage of the Bounty. As is well known, the purpose of the voyage was to transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the Caribbean to grow as food for the slaves working the plantations. The Bounty left Deptford Docks in London in 1787, and the voyage ended in mutiny two years later.
The project had come about through the discovery that the flowerpots that the Bounty took to Tahiti were made on Creekside, home of the Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT), of which Cuillin Bantock is Company Secretary. He contributed, among other things, eight gouaches, each 21.5x34cm, to the exhibition put on at APT in 2007.
The transcript of a talk - Don't Shoot Albatrosses' associated with the Bounty project 
From William Bligh’s Log #1-8 2007:
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My little ship does wonderfully well |
Sometime is laid aside for their |
All dark holes . . . the common receptacles of filth |
I had hopes I could perform this Voyage without |
Certainly the Paradise of the World |
Mr. Christian had a cutlass . . . I was forced on deck in my shirt |
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The poor man I lost was John Norton |
. . . highly perilous . . . the Sea breaking constantly over us |
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