Womens Bathrooms

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

Pink wall tiles line the women's bathrooms at Bankstown RSL. A grimy mirror hangs above two ceramic basins, reflecting the silent, disused space. Grout crumbles from the neglected surfaces.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Womens Bathrooms
Series: Bankstown RSL
Catalogue: BRS-024
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

The women's bathrooms at the Bankstown RSL are a wide tiled room with a long mirror running along the wall opposite the toilet stalls, a row of basins set into a vanity beneath, and a powder shelf with stools at the far end. The tiles are pastel pink on the lower half of the wall, white above, with a feature row of patterned tiles set at hand height between the two colours. The basins are porcelain, the taps chromed. The cubicle doors are timber, painted to match the upper tile colour. Fluorescent strip lights run above the mirror; most of them have failed. A scattering of tissue and a folded magazine on the powder shelf suggest the room was left exactly as it was on the last evening of trade.

Women's bathrooms in suburban RSL clubs of this era were sized for the crowds of a wedding, a christening, a debutante ball, or a Saturday-night dance, with a powder room separate from the cubicles and the basins. Bankstown's room ran across a full wall of the front-of-house area, sized for a venue that regularly held several hundred guests. The Bankstown RSL was demolished in March 2019. The pink tiles, the powder shelf, and the mirrored wall are gone.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Pink and mauve tiles line the walls of the women's bathrooms. A long white vanity bench runs the length of the room, its taps wrenched sideways or missing entirely. Ceiling panels sag and break apart, dropping plaster onto the mosaic floor. Hand dryers still hang in place. The mirrors reflect it all back. Maroon cubicle partitions stand open, their metal hardware tarnished and streaked with rust stains.

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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