Skin Shed

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/50 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rows of cast iron columns carry a corrugated iron roof across the empty skin shed at Blayney Abattoir. Timber boards run the length of the building. Sheep skins were dried here on overhead rails before being trucked off site. The abattoir operated from 1957 to 1998.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Skin Shed
Series: Blayney Abattoir
Catalogue: BAB-021
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 January 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/50 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Blayney, 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

Blayney, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Rows of cast iron columns carry a corrugated iron roof across the empty skin shed at Blayney Abattoir. Timber boards run the length of the building. Sheep skins were dried in this shed on overhead rails before being trucked off site for further processing. The space is open, the cladding loose in places, the floorboards scuffed at the working positions.

Blayney Abattoir processed 3,000 to 4,000 sheep a day on its main mutton chain at peak operation, with another 1,500 on the smaller chain. The skin shed was one part of the wider downstream processing fabric, alongside cold stores, rendering, offal rooms and boning rooms. The plant operated from 1957 to 1998 under various owners, with ANZCO Foods taking ownership in 1996. ANZCO closed the plant in March 1998.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel columns run in rows across a wide timber floor, supporting a corrugated iron roof held together by a lattice of angle-iron trusses and bracing. The space is enormous and open. Cabling hangs loose from the posts. Graffiti marks the far brick wall. Light enters low through the open sides, catching the grain of worn floorboards. The air in here would be dry and still, thick with dust and the faint smell of old wood.

Brett Patman

The series

Blayney Abattoir

2016 · 25 photographs

At peak the Blayney Abattoir employed about 1,600 people, one of the largest workforces in Central West New South Wales. The site had been a butter factory and freezing works from at least 1900, converted to an abattoir in 1957. ANZCO Foods, the New Zealand owner since 1996, announced closure in March 1998 with about 600 workers given a week's pay.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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