Entertainment Area at Callan Park, a long, low-ceilinged room with polished concrete floors scarred by decades of foot.
Entertainment Area at Callan Park, a long, low-ceilinged room with polished concrete floors scarred by decades of foot.

Entertainment Area

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/6 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Within Callan Park, the former entertainment hall lies dormant. Peeling paint covers the walls where patients once gathered for recreation. Sunlight filters through high windows, illuminating dust motes in the still air.

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Entertainment Area at Callan Park, a long, low-ceilinged room with polished concrete floors scarred by decades of foot.Entertainment Area at Callan Park, a long, low-ceilinged room with polished concrete floors scarred by decades of foot.Entertainment Area at Callan Park, a long, low-ceilinged room with polished concrete floors scarred by decades of foot.Entertainment Area at Callan Park, a long, low-ceilinged room with polished concrete floors scarred by decades of foot.Entertainment Area at Callan Park, a long, low-ceilinged room with polished concrete floors scarred by decades of foot.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Entertainment Area
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-019
Process
Giclée
Captured
29 October 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/6 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

The former entertainment hall at Callan Park. Peeling paint covers the walls of the room where patients gathered for recreation across the working life of the hospital. Sunlight enters through high windows along the outer wall and falls across the floor in flat panels. The room is empty of furniture. The proportions are sized for assembly use rather than ward fit-out.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. The hospital had been proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and operated continuously across the intervening decades. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands and is protected from subdivision by the Callan Park (Special Provisions) Act 2002.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A long, low-ceilinged room with polished concrete floors scarred by decades of foot traffic. Floral-upholstered lounge chairs sit in a row beneath banks of windows. Green curtain fabric hangs limp from a rail. Ceiling fans and fluorescent fittings cling to sagging panels overhead. A fire safety door sign marks the entrance. Trees press close against the glass, filling the space with a dull, green-filtered light.

Brett Patman

Callan Park

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

Print sizes

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07 MORE FROM CALLAN PARK

92 other prints in this series

All prints
Entertainment Room at Callan Park, a curved wall of louvre and casement windows wraps around the room in a wide semicircle.
Entertainment Room $100.00
Rehabilitation Rooms at Callan Park, you can see the old wire mesh windows and a beautiful brightly lit Jacaranda out.
Rehabilitation Rooms $100.00
Backlit Blind at Callan Park, a tall window fills the centre of the frame, venetian blinds drawn closed but glowing.
Backlit Blind $100.00
Clinic at Callan Park, an old clinic in one of the wards that has long since seen any patients.
Clinic $100.00
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