Delegate Shearers Front western australia The building is one of

The building is one of the rural vernacular structures Brett Patman photographed across the Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019

purpose-built in 1957 to serve the Balmain Tigers community

cardboard boxes flattened across the floor and an office chair left upright among the scattered debris

Every surface layered with graffiti

photographed in 2015

Delegate Shearers Front western australia The building is one ofThe weathered timber and corrugated iron facade of the Delegate shearers' quarters, its empty windows and peeling paint marking the end of seasonal work that once brought gangs of men together each year. Delegate sits at the southern edge of the Monaro, one of the earliest pastoral frontiers in New South Wales, with European settlement reaching this far south from 1827. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.