Cage
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A robust metal cage occupies the abandoned Sundell Holden complex. Its rusted bars, thick and unyielding, speak of past restraint. Faint light filters through the decaying structure, illuminating its forgotten purpose.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Cage
- Series
- Sundell Holden
- Catalogue
- SHO-006
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 8 November 2015
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 0.8s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 24 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
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A steel mesh gate stands open inside a low-ceilinged concrete space. Behind it, graffiti covers the back wall in layers of green, purple and red. A demon face. Cartoon characters. Aerosol cans on the floor. A lone office chair sits overturned near the centre. Metal grating lies flat across the ground, heavy and industrial. The ceiling beams run parallel, painted white, streaked with grime. An exit sign glows green in the far corner. The air looks thick and still.
Brett Patman
The series
Sundell Holden
Sundell Holden was the Chatswood East workshop and showroom of Sundell Motors Pty Ltd, on the corner of Smith and Gibbes Streets. Sundell Motors Chatswood Pty Ltd was registered with ASIC on 5 January 1967, and the company ran a Sydney North Shore Holden dealer network with sites at Chatswood, Top Ryde, West Ryde, Drummoyne, and Pittwater. The original Pacific Highway showroom, where a 1962 EJ Holden was sold new to Mr Alan Hamilton, was demolished in 1987 for the Zenith Centre. The Smith Street site continued as the network's main workshop. Four related Sundell entities consolidated into a single SUNDELL MOTORS PTY LTD on 3 September 2018, and operations wound down with the broader Holden franchise closure following Holden's national withdrawal in 2020. The Smith Street building stood empty for several years before being demolished for the Woolworths Chatswood East supermarket, which opened on the site in November 2022.
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