A heavy cast-iron valve wheel sits in the foreground, its spokes thick with dust. Behind it, the front casing of a steam turbine rises like a bulkhead, flanked by curved exhaust pipes that arch overhead. Smaller handwheels, copper standpipes, and bolted flanges crowd the turbine hall floor. Two storeys of steel-framed windows line the far wall, flooding the space with flat grey light. Everything carries the same muted palette of oxidised metal and concrete.
Morwell Power Station operated in the Latrobe Valley from 1958, burning brown coal from nearby open-cut mines to generate electricity for Victoria's grid. The station was decommissioned in 2014. Its turbine hall and boiler house remained intact at the time of closure.