Lower level of the turbine hall interior at Geelong B Power Station. Surfaces are coated in dust. Rust covers the metal components. Light enters from above, falling across the abandoned infrastructure.

01 Geelong B Power StationCorio2011 - 2012

ISO 80030sf/22.048mm

Series · 3 prints

Geelong B Power Station

Photographed 2011 - 2012
Frames 3
Camera NIKON D7000
Location Victoria, Australia
Status Part of Pivot City Innovation District (redevelopment proposed)
Years 1954 to 1970
Specs 30 MW capacity (three 10,000 kW generators) · Outdoor boiler design · US-imported 'packaged' station
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

Geelong B Power Station opened on 8 October 1954 in North Geelong, on the edge of Corio Bay. It was a "packaged" station with components imported from the United States, and at 30 megawatts across three 10 MW boiler-generator sets it was the largest power station in Victoria outside the Latrobe Valley. The design was unusual: rather than housing the boilers in a conventional boiler house, all three sat out of doors except for the operating faces, cutting construction costs. The State Electricity Commission of Victoria ran the station for 16 years before the Latrobe Valley brown-coal expansion left it for peak loads only. It closed in 1970. The building still stands. In 2014 it hosted an art project curated by Ian Ballis, and has since been formalised as a legal-graffiti precinct within the Pivot City heritage area.

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.

Dark water covers the floor of a derelict industrial interior at Geelong B Power Station. The still surface reflects overhead structural elements. Surfaces are heavily weathered.
Reflections
Turbine Hall Panorama at Geelong B Power Station, a panorama of the turbine hall.
Turbine Hall Panorama
Lower level of the turbine hall interior at Geelong B Power Station. Surfaces are coated in dust. Rust covers the metal components. Light enters from above, falling across the abandoned infrastructure.
Turbine Hall Basement
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.

08 BY POST · NO SPAM

Read the full story

Articles when they're published. The history behind a place. The day of a shoot. The work between prints. No marketing, no schedule.

You're subscribed.