Clean

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

White tiles line a functional room within Callan Park's former psychiatric hospital. Built as the Kirkbride complex in 1885, this space once facilitated patient care. The austere surfaces now reflect the quiet decay of forgotten history.

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Print datasheet

Title: Clean
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-014
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified →
Recognised by: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

Where this was photographed

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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About this print

White tiles line a functional room within the Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park. The tiles are small-format ceramic, the grout darkened with age but the surfaces still mostly intact. The walls are tiled to the ceiling. The fittings have been removed from the room; the tiled surfaces remain. Daylight enters from a window on the outer wall and falls across the tiled floor.

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. The complex was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, with ten ward blocks linked by a continuous covered veranda. Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

Cream ceramic tiles line the walls and floor of a communal bathroom. Two shower stalls sit divided by a terrazzo partition, steel grab rails still bolted in place. A small hatch in the rear wall exposes pipework and valve fittings. To the right, a porcelain basin hangs from exposed plumbing. Frosted louvre windows let in a flat, grey-green light. Grime darkens the grout lines. The floor tiles have lifted in long strips, edges curling.

— Brett Patman

The series

Callan Park

2016–2018 · 66 photographs

Callan Park opened in 1885 as the Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, on land at Rozelle in Sydney's Inner West. The Kirkbride Complex was designed by colonial architect James Barnet and superintendent Frederick Norton Manning, intended as a working example of the more progressive psychiatric care principles of the period. The hospital was reorganised through the twentieth century and many of the wards remain. Brett photographed across multiple visits between 2016 and 2018.

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