Auditorium Corridor

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A long, empty corridor stretches towards the auditorium within the abandoned Bankstown RSL. Faded paint peels from the walls, revealing layers of history in the silent, decaying club.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Auditorium Corridor
Series: Bankstown RSL
Catalogue: BRS-003
Process: Giclée
Captured: 6 February 2019
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 2.5s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A long corridor runs along the back of the Bankstown RSL auditorium, connecting the dressing rooms, the green room, and the stage entrance to the auditorium floor. The corridor is narrow, walled in painted plasterboard, with a low dropped ceiling lined in the same salmon-pink acoustic panels as the auditorium itself. The carpet underfoot is patterned in the heavy commercial weave of the postwar club industry. A row of doors along one side leads to the function rooms behind the stage; a single double-leaf door at the far end opens out to the auditorium. The corridor lighting is fluorescent overhead, half of it out. A few framed photographs hang along the wall, the glass dim with age.

Auditorium corridors of this kind were the working back-of-house at any large suburban entertainment venue. They handled the flow of staff, performers, and equipment between the auditorium and the function rooms without crossing the public floor. At Bankstown the corridor ran between the band-rooms behind the stage and the foyer at the front, with the auditorium opening off the middle of the run. The Bankstown RSL was demolished in March 2019. The corridor and its salmon-pink ceiling went down with the rest of the auditorium structure.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A long corridor stretches deep into the building, narrowing to a vanishing point lit in dull pink. Patterned carpet covers the floor in a tight red and black checkerboard weave, worn flat underfoot. The ceiling is clad in deep crimson panels with circular cutouts punched through at regular intervals. Grey composite walls line both sides, scuffed and bolted in place. A door stands open to the right. Recessed lights sit dead in their fittings. The air looks still and thick.

Brett Patman

The series

Bankstown RSL

2019 · 30 photographs

On 17 September 1928, 26 returned servicemen of the 1914 to 1918 war founded the City of Bankstown RSL sub-Branch. The clubhouse at 1 Meredith Street opened in 1955, with blue walls under bright red ceilings. The underground sports complex originally held a swimming pool, a squash court, a gym, and a sauna.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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