Dining Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Ivy has pushed through the wall beneath a row of multi-pane windows and spilled down across the plaster, colonising the lower half of the room. A central service counter with a pass-through window divides the space, and two sliding timber doors stand partly open to the left. Faint parallel lines run the length of the concrete floor, the ceiling above stained and peeling from long water ingress. Kirkbride Block, Callan Park.

Edition

Open edition

Open edition
Printed to order, no fixed quantity. Each print is hand-signed by the photographer.

Limited edition
A fixed number of prints exist. Once sold, the edition closes permanently. Each print is individually numbered and signed.

$100.00 AUD

Colour

Signed, numbered, with COA. Made to order in 5 to 10 business days (unframed). Shipped in protective packaging with edition certificate, paper-stock reference and a printed care guide.

See certificate sample →

Shipping Free shipping over $250. Ships worldwide, rates calculated at checkout.

Returns Damaged in transit? We replace it. Full policy →

Ships within 10 business days · signed & numbered

In situ

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

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

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

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Dining Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-017
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 8s 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

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

03 THE STORY

About this print

A dining room at Callan Park. The floor is concrete, scored with two parallel lines marking the working layout of the room. A service counter runs across the far wall, the working surface stained and the fittings stripped. Ivy climbs through the window frames on the right wall. Fluorescent fittings hang from the unpainted ceiling. The room is empty of furniture.

Callan Park was designed for around 600 patients but held 1,500 by 1930, more than double the designed capacity. Successive inquiries in 1923, 1948 and 1955 turned on the overcrowding. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital and closed on 30 April 2008. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

If ever you needed an example that nature always finds a way. Here it is.

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.

View all in this series →

05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

The anatomy view shows what this finish is as a physical object: paper margin, mat band, frame depth, acrylic profile. The comparison strip shows how each size sits relative to the others at true scale. Click a size or a finish to update both.