Dart Boards

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dust settles on weathered dart boards, still fixed to a wall inside the cavernous turbine hall of White Bay Power Station. The site closed in 1983, leaving these relics behind.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Dart Boards
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-043
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.4s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

02 LOCATION

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A pair of dart boards is mounted on the wall of the entertainment hall at White Bay Power Station, each board housed in a small timber cabinet with doors that fold open to expose the playing face. The doors are painted in the institutional green of the plant's working areas, scuffed at the corners. The dart boards themselves have weathered through decades of use: the cork sectors are pitted, the wire numbering has rusted in places, the central bullseye is worn through to the bare backing. The wall around the cabinets carries the marks of stray darts from across the years. The flooring in front of the boards is timber boards, scuffed and dusty.

The dart boards were part of the workforce welfare infrastructure at White Bay, alongside the bar billiards table elsewhere in the entertainment hall and the broader social facilities the plant ran for its 500-to-600-strong workforce. Dart matches between shift teams were a fixture of after-shift social life across the working decades of the plant from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the entertainment hall stopped being used; the boards stayed on the wall. The cabinets in this photograph have not been opened for play in over forty years.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Faint outlines mark where dartboards once hung, the surrounding walls pockmarked with decades of stray shots.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

2015–2018 · 124 photographs

Bricklayers laid 3.7 million bricks at White Bay across three and a quarter years of Phase 1 construction, on Wanngal Country at the western edge of Rozelle. The New South Wales Government Railways ran the build through its own Construction Department. By 3 July 1913, boilers and alternators were running before the buildings that housed them were complete.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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