A Life Defined by Displacement To understand Knud Bull, one must look past the romanticized image of the wandering painter and confront the reality of a man driven to Australia by a criminal conviction. Born in Bergen, Norway, Bull was not merely an artist but a man caught in the machinery of the British penal system. His presence in the Southern Hemisphere began not with a choice, but with a sentence for preparing equipment to print false bank notes. In 1846, he left Great Britain aboard the prison ship John Calvin, a transition that fundamentally altered the trajectory of his work. This f…