Stripped Cables at Balmain Leagues Club, here's an example of the work of other types of people who come to abandoned places.

01 Balmain Leagues ClubRozelle2015

ISO 1001.3sf/8.024mm

Series · 20 prints

Balmain Leagues Club

Photographed 2015
Frames 20
Camera NIKON D7000
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Demolished 2024-25
Years 1957 to 2010
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

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Balmain Leagues Club opened in 1957 on the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street in Rozelle, supporting the Balmain Tigers, one of the NSW Rugby League's original nine clubs. The Tigers' premiership tally was, until the mid-1990s, second only to St George and South Sydney. The Australian Rugby League listed the site as a place of historical significance during the code's 2008 centenary. The club closed on 28 March 2010 under a NSW Government order to vacate for what was then the Sydney Metro project. The metro alignment was later changed and the site was not used. The building stood empty on the corner of Victoria Road for over a decade through a series of failed redevelopment attempts. Demolition and rebuild as the Rozelle Village mixed-use development began in 2023, with a new Wests Ashfield Leagues Club to return to the site.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

Hand-signed and numbered, printed from the original RAW file. Open editions in the two smallest sizes; limited editions of 100, 50 and 25 in the three larger, never reissued once they sell through.

Stripped Cables at Balmain Leagues Club, here's an example of the work of other types of people who come to abandoned places.
Stripped Cables
A pink child's bicycle, its frame marked with the characters '2cute', leans against a concrete wall at the former Balmain Leagues Club in Rozelle.
Girls' Bike
Two red hose reels are fixed to a concrete column inside the former Balmain Leagues Club at Rozelle, both catching what light reaches this level. A graffiti-tagged yellow bin sits in the middle distance.
Hose Reel
The former kitchen at the Rozelle venue, unlit and stripped. Broken tiles cling to a column in the foreground, exposing brick and bent rebar beneath.
Kitchen
Auditorium Entrance at Balmain Leagues Club, a corridor leads toward a glass-block wall at the far end, where a sign.
Auditorium Entrance
A concrete ramp descends into the dark basement of the derelict Balmain Leagues Club in Rozelle, with dust motes visible in shafts of light from above.
Basement Ramp
Warped floorboards buckle and ridge across the main room of the former Balmain Leagues Club at Rozelle, the timber swollen from years of water ingress.
Restaurant
Auditorium at Balmain Leagues Club, shot inside the auditorium.
Auditorium
Cocktail Bar at Balmain Leagues Club, the carpet was dank and squelchy, and all the paper that was strewn across it was.
Cocktail Bar
Concrete columns recede into the lower level of the carpark at the former Balmain Leagues Club, each face layered with red, black, green and yellow spray paint.
Carpark Level One
Basement To Victoria Road at Balmain Leagues Club, concrete columns run in rows through the basement level, holding a low.
Basement To Victoria Road
A gutted room at the former Balmain Leagues Club at Rozelle, filled with rubbish. A black bin bag slumps in the foreground and a partly visible Tigers box sits on the concrete floor.
Gaming Floor
Rear Carpark Walkway at Balmain Leagues Club, nature reclaiming the walkway to the back carpark.
Rear Carpark Walkway
Betting Station at Balmain Leagues Club, a TAB Sportsbet terminal stands against the wall, its blue plastic surround still.
Betting Station
Shattered white tiles line the back wall of the function kitchen at 138 to 152 Victoria Road, Rozelle.
Kitchen Back Wall
Rows of overturned gaming tables stretch towards large windows along Victoria Road, Rozelle, the words 'gaming terrace' still legible through grime and cracked glass at Balmain Leagues Club.
Pokies
A passageway linking the basement carpark to the main floor of the former Balmain Leagues Club at 138 to 152 Victoria Road, Rozelle.
Fire Exit
Concrete pillars and a car park ramp at 138 to 152 Victoria Road, Rozelle, bear layer upon layer of overlapping tags and throw-ups, with a smiling cartoon figure in black and white dominating the far wall.
Front Parking Area
The main bar counter at Balmain Leagues Club in Rozelle, its mosaic tile fascia covered in graffiti, with loose ceiling panels and debris covering the floor.
Main Bar
A long corridor in the former office area of the Balmain Leagues Club at Rozelle. Yellow-backed panelling leans against the right wall.
Offices
04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Made to order by Brett in Sydney, from the original RAW file. Each print is hand-signed and numbered before it ships.

Paper

Ilford Galerie cotton rag, 310 gsm. Acrylic on metallic gloss, 260 gsm.

Editions

Open in XS and S. Limited in M (100), L (50), XL (25). From $100.

Print tiers →

Lead time

Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.

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