Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.
Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.

Gunningrah Drover's Hut

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
45mm · f/8.0 · 0.6s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Gunningrah Drover's Hut, a small corrugated iron structure, stands weathered by time. It provided essential shelter for drovers working the vast pastoral lands. The isolated dwelling reflects a solitary life in rural Australia.

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Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Gunningrah Drover's Hut
Series
A Place to Call Home
Catalogue
PCH-047
Process
Giclée
Captured
30 December 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
0.6s s
ISO
100
Focal length
45 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Rural New South Wales and ACT, Australia
Authenticity
C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
03 THE STORY

About this print

Gunningrah Drover's Hut is a small slab-walled hut in the high country of southern NSW, set on a slope above a creek. The hut is timber-framed with vertical hardwood slabs forming the walls. The roof is corrugated iron, low-pitched. A single timber door is set into the front wall. There are no windows; light enters through gaps between the slabs and around the eaves. A small chimney pokes from one end. The hut sits in scrubby grass with eucalypts close behind. Near the front door is a pile of split firewood, partially weathered.

Drovers' huts were the original infrastructure of cattle and sheep work in the high country. Built every twenty kilometres or so along established stock routes, they gave drovers somewhere to spend the night with a fire and a roof while the stock grazed nearby. The hut at Gunningrah dates from somewhere in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. It is no longer used for droving, since that practice has largely ended, but the hut is still standing, partly maintained by the property owner and partly used by bushwalkers. The firewood pile by the door is current. Whoever last used the hut left it ready for the next person.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together a single-room hut on open grassland near Gunningrah. A timber door hangs slightly ajar. One small window. The roof structure is exposed, steel framing visible where sheeting has lifted or gone. Tussock grass spreads in every direction. Behind the hut, eucalypts stand dark against a sky burning deep pink and copper at the horizon.

Brett Patman

A Place to Call Home

The series

A Place to Call Home

2015–2020 · 59 photographs

A series of rural homesteads from the Snowy Monaro region of southern New South Wales, with a few from the Hunter Valley. Most were family homes left behind when a generation moved to town; others when the land could no longer be worked. The buildings are smaller than the industrial sites that anchor most of Lost Collective and tend to be older. Most are timber-framed.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM A PLACE TO CALL HOME

58 other prints in this series

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Stone Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, a stone cottage sits low against open grassland, its rough-cut walls catching.
Stone Drover's Hut $100.00
House On The Hill at A Place to Call Home, a single concrete structure sits on an exposed ridge above the Snowy Mountains.
House On The Hill $100.00
Timber Weatherboards at A Place to Call Home, an early 20th century home just outside of Cathcart.
Timber Weatherboards $100.00
Home On the Range at A Place to Call Home, a long-vacant, lone farm cottage sits in a field beneath a distant rain cloud.
Home On the Range $100.00
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