Bathroom

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Pale green partitions divide three toilet stalls along the far wall, each topped by a small grimy window. An open door at left is glazed with wire mesh, and a strip of wooden slats lies across the patterned grey tile floor near the threshold. A brown radiator hugs the white-tiled wall to the right, beside a yellow box fixed at shoulder height. The utility room sits in the Kirkbride Block at Callan Park, Rozelle.

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In situ

Bathroom at Callan Park, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Bathroom at Callan Park, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Bathroom at Callan Park, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Bathroom
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-006
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1.3s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A bathroom at Callan Park has a single green-painted swing door standing open against white-tiled walls. The door is heavy, designed to be opened with a hip rather than pulled with a hand. Three cubicle partitions of polished terrazzo and pale green board divide the inner space. The cubicles have no doors. Floor tiles are small white hexagons in a grid. A single high window above the cubicles lets in flat daylight from the south. Brass plumbing fixtures, mostly tarnished, are still in place. The cubicle partitions are darker on the side facing the door, where light has fallen on them less.

Hospital bathrooms of the Callan Park era were designed to be supervised. Cubicles without doors meant nursing staff could see what was happening inside without needing to interrupt; swing doors meant the bathroom could be entered without setting down a tray or a basin of water. The terrazzo partitions were durable, easy to clean, and resistant to graffiti or damage. The bathroom in this photograph is an example of that approach in practice. After the hospital closed in 2008, the door swung open and stayed that way. The room is otherwise unchanged from operating-day conditions.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A green swing door stands open against white-tiled walls. Three cubicle partitions of polished terrazzo and pale green board divide the room. A wooden duckboard sits across the threshold, its slats dark with grime. Overhead, fluorescent light fittings hang from a stained plaster ceiling. A small cast-iron radiator rusts against the far wall. Daylight pushes through frosted windows but does not reach the floor.

Brett Patman

The series

Callan Park

95 photographs

Callan Park is a former psychiatric hospital at Rozelle on Iron Cove, proclaimed Callan Park Hospital for the Insane on 1 August 1878 and closed on 30 April 2008. Its Kirkbride Complex, built from 1880 to 1885 by Colonial Architect James Barnet with Inspector General of the Insane Frederic Norton Manning and Botanic Gardens director Charles Moore, was the first hospital in Australia designed on moral therapy principles: 10 sandstone ward blocks, 5 male and 5 female, linked by a continuous covered veranda in 61 hectares of parkland.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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