Lights

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/2.8 · 1/125 sec · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Three fluorescent fixtures lean at a steep angle from corroded mounts at Bradmill, Yarraville, their housings packed with grime and pigeon waste. A large-diameter pipe runs across the lower mid-ground, encrusted with decades of debris, while a yellow tarp draped over unseen machinery pulls the one note of colour through an otherwise grey interior. Chains, ductwork and crossbeams fill the remaining space, leaving almost no clear sightline.

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In situ

Lights at Bradmill Denim, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Lights at Bradmill Denim, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Lights at Bradmill Denim, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Lights
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-017
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 1/125 sec s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Yarraville, Victoria, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The fluorescent fittings were still in position, hanging from the steel beams at the angles they were installed, their tubes intact but dead. Bradmill's production floors had been lit this way across the wide spans of the weaving and finishing spaces. By March 2012 the light that reached the interior came from outside, filtered through corrugated cladding and falling across the upper surfaces of the structure. The fittings, the steel crossing diagonally through the frame, the scrap of yellow fabric clinging to a beam near the ceiling: the building retained the form of an occupied space without the occupation.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel beams cut diagonally across the frame, crossing pipes and structural columns inside the Bradmill Denim factory. A pair of fluorescent light fittings hang at an angle, their tubes intact but dead. The concrete is thick with grime. Corrugated metal cladding lines the upper walls. A scrap of yellow fabric clings to the steelwork near the ceiling. The air looks heavy, full of dust and damp.

Brett Patman

The series

Bradmill Denim

52 photographs

The former Davies Coop / Bradmill factory, Yarraville, was a textile works on Francis Street in Melbourne's western suburbs, built as the dyeing and finishing plant of the cotton spinner Davies Coop & Co. Ltd. It followed a 1952 agreement with the Bradford Dyers' Association of England and was in production by the middle of 1955. Bradmill Industries bid for Davies Coop in 1969 and owned it outright by 1973. The steel-framed, red brick boiler house is the building the heritage listing names as a large and dominant local landmark.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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