When award-winning photographer Elise Derwin recently returned to The Joinery, the space had undergone a very different kind of transformation. Rehearsals for Love for One Night were underway, with the vast industrial building temporarily transformed into the front of the Eltham Hotel, complete with a balcony, bar tables and all the creative chaos of a production coming to life.
These striking images capture The Joinery in full creative flight: artists, crew and collaborators filling the space with energy, imagination and possibility.
From construction site to rehearsal room, every new chapter reveals a little more of what The Joinery can become.
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