www.scene4.com

December 2022

Craning for a View | Jon Rendell | Scene4 Magazine | November 2022 | www.scene4.com

TIME • RONE 
28 October – 23 April 2023
The Photography of Jon Rendell

Melbourne street artist Tyrone Wright, (AKA 'Rone'), has taken over the city's iconic Flinders Street Railway Station's mysterious upper level and ballroom to create a nostalgic love letter to mid-century Melbourne and a tribute to one of the city's great icons.  

It's a fictional history that transports audiences to post-WWII Melbourne, 'Time' is inspired by an era when European migrants powered the city's booming manufacturing industries. A vignette of mid-century working-class life and an ode to the faded yet enduring beauty of this forgotten place, Time captures the spirit of the city's industrious past while offering glimpses of the station's role as a once-glorious hub of work, learning and social life. Time has been in the works for over three years, and until recently, the space has been closed to the public for 40 years.

Visitors can explore each distinctly themed room filled with countless original and meticulously recreated period objects, evocative lighting and sound design, as Rone's haunting signature female portraits hover serene and ghost-like above each scene. 

'The inspiration for 'Time' was the building itself,' Rone adds. 'Each room informed what we would create inside. Many of the spaces felt like administrative spaces so that's what we created. For example a mailroom, switchboard and a typing pool. Other areas were more social like the ballroom of course, and then we looked at education spaces like our library and classroom installations which are a direct nod to what actually existed up there during the mid-1900s.'

Sceen4 -01901
Flinders Street Railway Station (built 1909)

Sceen4 -07954
Garment Production

Sceen4 -08000
Mailroom

Sceen4 -07967
Switchboard

Sceen4 -07999
Typing Pool

Sceen4 -08025
Library

Sceen4 -08027
Library

Sceen4 -08083
Artist Studio

Sceen4 -08047
Ballroom

Sceen4 -
Ballroom (long view)

Sceen4 -08062
Clock Tower (mock-up)

Sceen4 -08065
I'm sure some people thought they were really in the clock tower.

Sceen4 -5813
Clock Tower End of Flinders Street Station. Melbourne is currently suffering the
effects of La Niña and a negative Indian Ocean Diapole (IOD) event.


 

Share This Page

View readers' comments in Letters to the Editor

Jon-Rendell-bio-pic-cr

Jon Rendell was born into an auteur/photog family in Melbourne, Australia, in 1957 and grew up around cameras and film. He honed his craft under renowned photographer Athol Shmith at what is now Swinburne University (Prahran Campus, Melbourne). He was always captivated by shadows and finds himself hard-wired to focusing on the transitory, abstract shapes that come and go with the available light. For more of his photography in Scene4, check the Archives.

©2022 Jon Rendell
©2022 Publication Scene4 Magazine

 


 

www.scene4.com

December 2022

  Sections~Cover · This Issue · inFocus · inView · inSight · Perspectives · Special Issues
  Columns~Adler · Alenier · Bettencourt · Jones · Luce · Marcott · Walsh 
  Information~Masthead · Your Support · Prior Issues · Submissions · Archives · Books
  Connections~Contact Us · Comments · Subscribe · Advertising · Privacy · Terms · Letters

|  Search Issue | Search Archives | Share Page |

Scene4 (ISSN 1932-3603), published monthly by Scene4 Magazine
of Arts and Culture. Copyright © 2000-2022 Aviar-Dka Ltd – Aviar Media Llc.

sc4cover-archives-picSubscribe to our mail list for news and a monthly update of each new issue. It's Free!

 Name

 Email Address
 

        Please see our Privacy Policy regarding the security of your information.

sciam-subs-221tf71
Thai Airways at Scene4 Magazine
calibre-ad1