Olympia Salon

Provenance

Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Olympia Salon is painted across the upper window panes in faded lettering, with style cutting and nutri-tonic perms spelled out below beside a comb and scissors icon. Dried fern-like growth pushes in from the left of the frame and green foliage from the right, pressing against the peeling paintwork. Horizontal wire is strung across the glass, and a cloudy sky reflects off the grimy panes.

Edition

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In situ

Olympia Salon at Parramatta Road, black-framed print (in-situ_42396b7a-7fe2-45fa-a0ea-96e6f993ed6c).

Olympia Salon at Parramatta Road, raw timber-framed print (in-situ_a00d95c7-994f-42ab-b2fd-5a87d382a52c).

Olympia Salon at Parramatta Road, glass print (in-situ_564338b1-fffd-4728-bbce-18a1c00c57a8).

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Olympia Salon
Series: Parramatta Road
Catalogue: PRO-027
Process: Giclée
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Olympia Salon is painted across the upper window panes in faded gold lettering, with style cutting and nutri-tonic perms spelled out below alongside a comb and scissors icon. The timber frames are split and the paint is peeling off them in sheets. Dried fern-like growth pushes in from the left of the frame and a smaller cluster of green foliage presses against the paintwork on the right. Horizontal wire is strung across the glass, red brick surrounds the window, and the reflection of a cloudy sky sits across the grimy panes.

Perms and style cutting name a trade that has since changed its vocabulary. Hairdressing was one of the ordinary neighbourhood services that filled the ground floors along Parramatta Road when the corridor still worked for the people living beside it, before the widening of the 1920s and 1930s turned the frontage over to through traffic and made the footpath a place to pass rather than stop. Signwriting outlasts the business every time, because taking it down costs money and leaving it there does not. Plants growing in through the window frames are the usual next stage. This frame was made in December 2017, during the two years Lost Collective spent photographing the corridor.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Gold lettering on glass reads "Olympia Salon" across the top panes. Below, "Style Cutting" and "Nutri-Tonic Perms" sit beside hand-painted scissors and a comb. The timber window frame is split and bleached, paint curling away in dry strips. Ferns push through gaps between the glass and the brickwork. Pale blue render flakes from the upper facade, exposing red brick beneath. Cloud reflections fill the dark panes.

Brett Patman

The series

Parramatta Road

27 photographs

Parramatta Road runs west from the edge of Sydney's city centre to Parramatta, on the line of the first overland route between Sydney Town and the settlement first named Rose Hill. Convict labour cut a three-metre-wide track through the bush between 1789 and 1791, and Governor Macquarie opened the road, widened and paved in stone, on 10 April 1811. The photographs, taken from 2016 to 2018, follow it from Auburn to Stanmore, past a used car dealer's building, a motel and a milk bar.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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