Showers Colour:Raw Drawing Board at Waterfall

Drawing Board at Waterfall

coated in dust and discoloured with age

a detail of domestic life left behind when the Victoria Road venue closed in March 2010

Desks and chairs remain where students left them

Showers Colour:Raw Drawing Board at WaterfallWater stained shower stalls, tiles gone grimy and paint peeling from the walls, inside the former O I Glass factory at Spotswood. These amenities served the workers who kept the furnaces running across more than a century of glass manufacturing on the site. Glass production at Spotswood began in 1890 and continued until January 2012, when the factory closed and the buildings were subsequently demolished. Part of the O I Glass series.