Malthouse Three Basement at Mittagong Maltings, the South Western side of the basement as it currently exists.

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ISO 1001.6sf/8.072mm

Series · 11 prints

Mittagong Maltings

Photographed 2014
Frames 11
Camera NIKON D7000
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Remediation underway; mixed-use redevelopment approved 2022
Years 1899 to 1980
Specs Three malthouses · Peak ~200,000 bushels annually · 6.5 hectares
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

Mittagong Maltings was a three-malthouse complex in the Southern Highlands, built between 1899 and 1916 to supply malt to New South Wales breweries. The Malting Company of New South Wales put up the first malthouse in 1899 between the railway line and Nattai Creek. Tooth and Co bought the operation in 1905 and built two more malthouses, in 1906 and 1916, taking the complex to the imposing scale that still defines the Mittagong skyline. At peak the maltings produced about 200,000 bushels of malt a year. Fires damaged Malthouses 1 and 2 in 1942 and gutted one of the malthouses in 1969, but production continued until 1980. Tooth and Co put the holdings up for sale in 1980. The buildings stood empty for almost forty years until Halcyon Hotels bought the site for $6.05 million, planning to retain the exteriors and convert the interiors to mixed use.

02 TIMELINE

Chronology

1898
1899
1905
1916
1942
1953
1969
1980
1982
1986
2000
2016
2019
2022
2025
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.

Malthouse Three Basement at Mittagong Maltings, the South Western side of the basement as it currently exists.
Malthouse Three Basement
A red-leafed tree in full autumn colour anchors the left of the frame, its fallen leaves scattered across a dark asphalt path leading toward the brick facade of the Mittagong Maltings.
Maltings Driveway
Tall grass fills the foreground, obscuring the base of the main malthouse at the Mittagong Maltings and drawing the eye up to a roof where tile damage and exposed timber framing run its full breadth.
Malthouse Three
Heavy timber beams and uprights recede in a grid inside Malthouse 1 at the Mittagong Maltings, with "Save me" painted in large letters on a column in the foreground.
Malthouse One Lower
Malthouse Two Basement at Mittagong Maltings, earthen floor with pylons supporting Malthouse two.
Malthouse Two Basement
Malthouse Two at Mittagong Maltings, the ground level of Malthouse two.
Malthouse Two
Malthouse One First Floor at Mittagong Maltings, one of the upstairs rooms that remain of Malthouse one.
Malthouse One First Floor
Dark columns rise in a close grid across the ground floor of Malthouse 1 at the Mittagong Maltings, their silhouettes cutting against a white brick wall lit from broken windows beyond.
Malthouse One West
Natural light enters through a gap in the attic structure of Mittagong Maltings. Dust motes are visible in the shaft of light. Exposed timber beams cross the frame.
Attic Opening
Wooden A-frame trusses repeat down the length of a gantry walkway at the Mittagong Maltings, converging on an end wall covered floor to ceiling in graffiti. Corrugated iron lines the underside of the roof above.
Gantry
An upstairs room at the Mittagong Maltings, its polychrome brick walls heavily marked with graffiti. Green lettering runs across the upper wall above a large brown and green piece covering most of the lower wall.
Malthouse One
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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