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01 Mountain View HomesteadWisemans Creek2018
ISO 1001/320f/8.014mm
Series · 2 prints
Mountain View Homestead is a two-storey wattle and dab house at Wisemans Creek in Oberon Shire, on the NSW Central Tablelands between Bathurst, Oberon and Lithgow. Designed and built by David Smith Todd between 1880 and 1894 in a French Renaissance style, it is believed to be the only known two-storey wattle-and-daub dwelling in NSW. Timber was harvested on the property; mud came from the nearby Levy's Gully; lime plaster on the outside disguised the construction. There is no internal staircase: the upper floor is reached by a ladder from the kitchen and external steps. Todd was a community figure in his own right, running for the seat of Macquarie in 1898 on a ticket advocating free trade, agriculture, Federation and women's suffrage. The homestead was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 10 March 2006. Conservation 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.
