Entertainment Area

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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Print datasheet

Title: Entertainment Area
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-019
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

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.

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

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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