Paint

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Settings: 105mm · f/9.0 · 2 sec · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Ten spray paint cans line a worn yellow concrete barrier inside the dormant Bradmill factory at Yarraville, each capped in a different colour. The nearest, capped in purple, still carries its warning labels, a 400ml volume mark and the word Black printed on the side. Paint splatters and grime coat the barrier beneath them.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Paint
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-019
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 2 sec s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 105 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 spray cans were left where they sat, balanced on a yellow steel beam near the base of a graffiti-covered wall. Bradmill's Yarraville complex became one of the more extensively documented urban-exploration sites in Melbourne during the years it stood empty between closure and redevelopment. The accumulated layers of lettering across the walls record successive visits over the dormant period. These Montana Black cans, their labels worn, their bodies carrying residue in colours that don't match their caps, were part of that record. Brett photographed them in March 2012.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Montana Black 400ml cans lined up on a concrete ledge, labels spattered and worn. Purple, blue, red, orange. Paint residue coats the steel bodies in colours that don't match their caps. Behind them, a graffiti-covered wall catches filtered light through corrugated sheeting. The concrete floor is grey with dust and grit. The air in here smells like solvent and damp brick.

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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