The Shellharbour Village Motel at Shellharbour, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Bright blue doors set into mauve and dusky pink render on both levels, a black balustrade across the upper walkway and a reception arrow beside room 3 below.
The Shellharbour Village Motel at Shellharbour, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Bright blue doors set into mauve and dusky pink render on both levels, a black balustrade across the upper walkway and a reception arrow beside room 3 below.

Shellharbour Village Motel

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
24mm · f/8.0 · 6s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Shellharbour Village Motel at Shellharbour, two levels of mauve and dusky pink render with a black steel balustrade across the upper walkway. Rooms 12 and 13 sit behind bright blue doors above, room 3 below beside a reception arrow, net curtains flat behind every window.

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In situ

Shellharbour Village Motel at Hotel Motel 101, unframed print displayed in situ on a wall.Shellharbour Village Motel at Hotel Motel 101, white-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Shellharbour Village Motel at Hotel Motel 101, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Shellharbour Village Motel at Hotel Motel 101, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Shellharbour Village Motel at Hotel Motel 101, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Shellharbour Village Motel
Series
Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue
HMO-070
Process
Giclée
Captured
7 April 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
6s s
ISO
100
Focal length
24 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
297 × 210 mm
Location
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

New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Bright blue doors are set into mauve and dusky pink render on both levels at the Shellharbour Village Motel. Upstairs, rooms 12 and 13 sit behind a black steel balustrade, a single wall-mounted light throwing hard white glare across the landing. Downstairs, room 3 has a dark panelled door under a warm amber bulb, a small blue reception sign with an arrow pointing right beside it. Net curtains hang flat behind every window.

The Shellharbour Village Motel was photographed at 01:10 on 7 April 2018, on the south Illawarra run of Hotel Motel 101. The project covered 101 traditional Australian motor inns across three sweeps out of Sydney in late March and early April 2018: south on the Hume and Princes Highway corridor, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Village-branded motels at smaller Australian coastal towns commonly pitched themselves on the proximity to the historic centre rather than the open highway, with the trade aimed at the slower-paced holiday market.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of rendered concrete and steel balustrade. Upstairs, rooms 12 and 13 sit behind bright blue doors, a single wall-mounted light throwing hard white glare across the landing. Downstairs, room 3 has a dark panelled door and a warm amber bulb. Net curtains hang flat behind every window. A small blue "Reception" sign with an arrow points right. No Smoking. No cars in the carpark. No people.

Brett Patman

Hotel Motel 101

The series

Hotel Motel 101

2015–2020 · 103 photographs

Hotel Motel 101 is a series of one hundred and one motels photographed in 2018 across three runs out of Sydney. North to the Central Coast, west through the Blue Mountains to the central western tablelands, south down the NSW South Coast. The count crept up from a planned seventy toward the round number, plus one for safety.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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07 MORE FROM HOTEL MOTEL 101

102 other prints in this series

All prints
The Thirroul Beach Motel at Thirroul, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Two storeys of red brick with pastel doors on both levels, a reception sign at the end of the row, palms and cordylines along the frontage and stars over the empty car park.
Thirroul Beach Motel, Thirroul$100.00
The 3 Sisters Motel sign at Katoomba, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. A tall red neon MOTEL blade rises above the name in white and blue tubing, a RESTAURANT sign alongside it and a brick garden wall below.
3 Sisters Motel Sign$100.00
The Grandstand Motel at Warwick Farm, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Two storeys of red brick with a hose reel on the wall, green curtains drawn behind the ground-floor windows, weeds pushing through the paving and one fluorescent tube lit above.
Grandstand Motel, Warwick Farm$100.00
The Mt Kuring-Gai Motel sign photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Red neon outlines a painted panel with a cactus and an OFFICE arrow, a FOXTEL box above it and VACANCY below, with cacti growing in the bed at the base of the pole.
Mt Kuring-Gai Motel Sign$100.00
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