RSL Entrance

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The main entry foyer of Bankstown RSL sits stripped and vacant. Carpet runs in faded bands of grey and terracotta toward the glass exit doors. Wall-mounted brackets hang loose. Recessed lighting remains in the ceiling above.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: RSL Entrance
Series: Bankstown RSL
Catalogue: BRS-020
Process: Giclée
Captured: 6 February 2019
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 2s 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

The front entrance of the Bankstown RSL faces Meredith Street, a double-leaf glazed doorway set under a projecting steel awning. The doors are framed in chromed steel with full-height tempered-glass panels and brass push handles. Above the awning, the club's signage runs in moulded steel lettering: BANKSTOWN RSL, with the City of Bankstown sub-Branch crest mounted to one side. A short flight of steps leads up to the doors from the footpath. Either side of the doorway, low brick planters mark the entrance line. The wall behind the planters is rendered concrete, painted in the pale buff that runs across the building's street frontage.

The 1955 clubhouse at 1 Meredith Street opened with this entrance as its front door, and the basic geometry remained largely unchanged across the next sixty-four years. The signage was updated several times over the decades; the moulded-steel lettering in this photograph dates from a refurbishment somewhere in the late twentieth century. The old clubhouse closed on 15 January 2019. The new Bankstown RSL & Hotel opened on the same site six days later, on 21 January 2019. The 1955 building was demolished in March 2019, this entrance with it.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A concrete column stands centre-frame, splitting the foyer into two grey corridors. Red lines run across the carpet like faded lane markings. On the right wall, a TV bracket hangs empty, cables drooping. The ceiling-mounted air conditioning cassette is dead. Plywood boards cover sections of the glass entrance doors. Daylight pushes through the gaps, falling flat across the floor. A green exit sign glows above. Restroom signage on the far left wall. Everything stripped back to surfaces.

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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