The Wall

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/60 · ISO 64
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Weathered corrugated iron panels cover the side wall of the nearest shack at Tin City, a white PVC pipe protruding from the upper edge and tufts of grass pushing through the sand at its base. Beyond it a smaller dwelling shows panels of grey, red and green, its relatively fresh cladding standing out against the surrounding dunes of the Worimi Conservation Lands.

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In situ

The Wall at Tin City, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

The Wall at Tin City, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

The Wall at Tin City, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: The Wall
Series: Tin City
Catalogue: TCI-020
Process: Giclée
Captured: 31 January 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/60 s
ISO: 64
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Anna Bay, 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

Anna Bay, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A single wall of one of the Tin City shacks fills the frame, the corrugated iron in a soft patchwork of pale greys and rusted reds. The wall has been built and repaired in layers: an underlying course of older, darker iron, a middle section of mid-period galvanised steel, and a recent patch in Colorbond at the top right. The seams between materials run as visible horizontal lines. The screws holding each sheet to the timber framing behind are visible in regular rows. A small window has been let into the wall near one corner, glazed in salvaged louvres. Sand has built up against the lower edge.

A Tin City wall is a record of every repair decision made on it. The materials change with each generation of cladding available at the time; the timber framing underneath is often older than any of the visible sheets and has been replaced piece by piece as it rotted. Tin City's shacks are nearly all of similar age in terms of when they were first built (the 1930s Depression-era settlement, rebuilt post-war), but the visible surfaces are much younger. The 11 remaining shacks all carry walls like this one, an accumulating history of small fixes that adds up to a building.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Corrugated iron sheeting looking to a distant Tin City shack

Brett Patman

The series

Tin City

37 photographs

Tin City is the local name for a group of huts behind the frontal dune on Stockton Bight, in the Worimi Conservation Lands between Newcastle and Port Stephens, New South Wales, on Worimi country. In 2015 there were 11, all single storey and clad in corrugated iron, with gable or skillion roofs. Most were built in the 1970s and 1980s; the oldest still standing that year dated from December 1970 and the youngest from 1992.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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