Entertainment Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/50 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight filters into the entertainment room at Callan Park, illuminating dust motes above the decaying stage. Empty rows of chairs face the proscenium arch. This space once hosted performances for the hospital's patients.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Entertainment Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-020
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/50 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

Sunlight filters into the entertainment room at Callan Park. Dust hangs in the air above a decaying stage at one end of the room. Empty rows of chairs face the proscenium arch. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling across patches. The stage timber is split and weathered. The room is otherwise undisturbed.

The entertainment and recreation facilities at Callan Park served the patient population across the working life of the hospital. The Kirkbride Complex was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, designed around the idea that air, light, and the surrounding landscape were the treatment. The hospital was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and closed on 30 April 2008.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A curved wall of louvre and casement windows wraps around the room in a wide semicircle. The concrete floor is bare and polished to a dull sheen. Light enters evenly across the glass, casting soft reflections on the ground. Two fluorescent fittings hang from a textured ceiling. Wall-mounted air conditioning units sit inert at either end. Beyond the glass, eucalypts and garden canopy press close. The room is completely empty.

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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