Laboratory Colour:Black Bare trees press close on

Bare trees press close on all sides

its walls deep with rust

Structures like this were built across rural New South Wales from the 1830s onward by selectors and graziers working marginal country

Weathered corrugated iron and broken timbers make up this derelict farm shed

years after production ceased in the facility once described as the biggest independent bakery in Australia

Laboratory Colour:Black Bare trees press close onDust coated glassware and abandoned instruments line the worn benches of the laboratory at Portland Cement Works, a room that once supported the quality control work of one of Australia's largest cement operations. The Commonwealth Portland Cement Company at its 1912 peak produced approximately 40% of all Portland cement manufactured in Australia. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.