Entertainment Hall Stage

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A music stand at the front of the stage in the workers' entertainment hall, its surface mottled with rust. Long wooden benches face it from the floor. The hall hosted performances for station workers throughout White Bay's 66-year operational life.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Entertainment Hall Stage
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-047
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 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: Rozelle, 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

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The stage at the entertainment hall at White Bay Power Station is a raised timber platform at one end of the hall, sized for a band, a function speaker, or a small theatrical setup. The stage floor is hardwood, the boards laid in long parallel runs, scuffed and dusty from decades of use and disuse. A timber proscenium frames the stage opening, the framework painted in the standard institutional cream of the hall. Curtain rails run along the inside of the proscenium, the curtains long since removed. A small set of timber steps at the side of the stage gives access from the hall floor. The lighting from above is dead.

The entertainment hall stage hosted the after-shift social events that ran across the working life of the plant from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983: union meetings, retirement parties, christmas functions, occasional theatrical performances and small bands. The hall was sized for a workforce that peaked at around 500 to 600 people across multiple shifts. The site was the unofficial origin point of the Lost Collective project. After closure the hall stopped being used for its original purpose. The stage has stayed in place; the site has been opened occasionally for arts and film, including the 2024 Biennale of Sydney.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A raised timber stage fills the centre of the hall, its floorboards grey and bare. A rusted music stand sits at the front edge, facing rows of long wooden benches that line both walls. The concrete is stained and blotched where paint has lifted away. Overhead, exposed timber trusses span the full width of the pitched roof. Light pushes through wire-reinforced windows on each side, flat and even across the empty floor.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

2015–2018 · 124 photographs

Bricklayers laid 3.7 million bricks at White Bay across three and a quarter years of Phase 1 construction, on Wanngal Country at the western edge of Rozelle. The New South Wales Government Railways ran the build through its own Construction Department. By 3 July 1913, boilers and alternators were running before the buildings that housed them were complete.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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