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01 Mill Pond FarmJembaicumbene2022
ISO 1001/8f/8.014mm
Series · 3 prints
Mill Pond Farm sits in Jembaicumbene, near Braidwood, on land first worked as the region's earliest dairy in the 1830s. In 1859 a Yorkshire-born goldminer named Charles Dransfield built a four-storey Steam Flour Mill on the property, designed by Sydney architect Charles Langley. A 24-horsepower steam engine ground wheat, sawed timber, and crushed quartz to extract gold. The mill ran until 1885, when the railway arriving in Tarago undercut local flour prices, the financial depression hit, and repeated wheat rust outbreaks finished the run. The mill, stables, and dairy buildings sat unworked for nearly a century. Restoration is in progress.
Hand-signed limited editions, printed from the original RAW file. Editions run from 100 down to 25 and are not reissued once they sell through.
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.
Lead time
Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.
Often I'd find myself looking at the machines and architecture and challenging myself to find one single object designed purely for aesthetics. Craftsmanship made way for efficiency in engineering long before I'd even left school.
The Guardian
On the LC archive.
People talk about what it was like to work or stay in these places, who they knew, what they did, how great the Christmas parties were, that store man nobody liked, what all the different machines were, how they worked and what became of them.
Broadsheet
On the LC archive.
There's this sense of wonder you get when looking at abandoned buildings. You try to imagine what these spaces were like when they were filled with busy workers trying to meet production targets. And why did they close?
The Guardian
On the LC archive.
