The Oxley Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 30s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dust motes dance in sunbeams through broken windows at The Oxley Motel. A desolate corridor stretches into shadow, silent and still, awaiting guests that never arrive.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: The Oxley Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-073
Process: Giclée
Captured: 7 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 30s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 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

The Oxley Motel takes its name from John Oxley, the early-nineteenth-century colonial explorer who mapped much of the NSW inland. The building is single-storey, brick, with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is pale, the trim a brown along the fascia and the doorframes. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit panel, with a small silhouette of a colonial explorer beside the lettering. The carpark is empty in the late evening. A row of metal-framed chairs sits along the walkway. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt.

The Oxley Motel was photographed at 23:40 on 7 April 2018, on the Southern Highlands 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. Colonial-explorer naming sat inside the broader Australian motel habit of reaching for settler mythology to give the property a connection to the highway corridor it served.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Rooms 36 and 37 sit side by side under a grey tiled roof. Brown brick and white timber trim. A single plywood chair waits outside room 36, angled toward the car park. Curtains drawn behind multi-pane windows. A brick planter holds agaves between the two doorways. A fire extinguisher hangs on the dividing wall. Fluorescent light spills across the concrete slab verandah. Beyond the roofline, tall trees disappear into black sky. Gravel lot. No cars.

Brett Patman

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

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