3 Sisters Motel Sign

Name: 3 Sisters Motel Sign
SKU: LC-hotel-motel-101-3-sisters-motel-sign-XS-UF
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New South Wales, Australia · Photographed in New South Wales, 2015

A derelict sign for the 3 Sisters Motel in rural Australia. Its weathered paint and rusted frame speak of countless seasons passed since guests last arrived.

Edition Open edition

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$37.00 USD

Size XS

Type Unframed

Colour N/A

Ships within 10 business days · signed & numbered

In situ

Print datasheet · certificate of authenticity

The data is the authenticity.

Paper: Ilford Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Process: Giclée
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Year photographed: 2015
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Printed: Sydney, 2026

COA · Every print ships with a signed certificate, edition number and paper stock reference.

About this print

The 3 Sisters Motel sign rises vertical against a black sky in Katoomba. Red neon outlines the tall MOTEL blade. Below it, 3 Sisters glows in white script on a blue-lit panel. A smaller vertical reads RESTAURANT in red. The colours bleed onto brick, hedges, and wet pavement at the base of the sign. A single globe lights the driveway entrance. Power lines cut the darkness behind a young tree washed in green spill. The motel itself sits back from the sign, dark, mostly off-camera. The sign is the one piece of the property still putting out light, and the photograph holds it as the dominant subject.

Katoomba was on the Blue Mountains run, the western leg of Hotel Motel 101. The series ran to 102 traditional motor inns photographed in three sweeps out of Sydney across 2018, north along the Central Coast, west through the Blue Mountains to the Central Western Tablelands, south to the start of the South Coast. Inclusion was strict. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Chain motels were skipped. Most of the photography happened in the hours either side of midnight, when there were no cars, no people, and the signs were the brightest objects on the highway.

From the field notes

The 3 Sisters Motel sign rises vertical against a black sky in Katoomba. Red neon outlines the tall MOTEL blade. Below it, "3 Sisters" glows in white script on a blue-lit panel. A smaller vertical reads RESTAURANT in red. The colours bleed onto brick, hedges, and wet pavement. A single globe lights the driveway entrance. Power lines cut the darkness behind a young tree washed in green spill.

— Brett Patman

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