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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.'
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