Broken Up

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Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Splintered wood and debris scatter across the floor inside Callan Park. This scene captures the slow disintegration of a forgotten space within the historic psychiatric hospital.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Broken Up
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-011
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 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

Splintered wood and debris are scattered across the floor of one of the rooms at Callan Park. The timber is from the joinery of the room, removed from the windows and the doors at some point during the disused years. The walls of the room are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches. The floor is timber boards under the debris, scuffed and stained.

Callan Park Hospital for the Insane was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 to a design by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederick Norton Manning, based on the Chartham Down Hospital in Kent. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

You can see patches on the floor where it is starting to rot away.

Brett Patman

The series

Callan Park

2016–2018 · 93 photographs

Dr Frederic Norton Manning rejected the asylum as 'a cemetery for deceased intellects'. In 1876 he toured asylums in England, France, Germany and the United States, returning with drawings of Chartham Down Hospital in Kent. Working with Colonial Architect James Barnet and Botanic Gardens director Charles Moore, he built Australia's first hospital purpose-built for moral therapy treatment on the Iron Cove foreshore.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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