Frosted glass panels line both sides of a narrow corridor at Callan Park, with a closed door centred at the far end catching the only strong light in the frame.

Rehabilitation Hall

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 18mm · f/8.0 · 0.6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Frosted glass panels line both sides of a narrow corridor at Callan Park, with a closed door centred at the far end catching the only strong light in the frame. The polished dark floor carries long streaks of reflected daylight and years of scuff marks. Peeling paint and damaged plaster run the length of the ceiling above the metal-clad lower walls.

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In situ

Rehabilitation Hall at Callan Park, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

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

Rehabilitation Hall at Callan Park, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Rehabilitation Hall
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-022
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.6s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 18 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

Callan Park's rehabilitation programs were part of the wider mid-twentieth-century shift away from custodial confinement toward active treatment. The Cerebral Surgery Research Unit opened on site in 1961, the same year as the Royal Commission into the hospital's conditions. Occupational therapy, group sessions and supervised movement and exercise programmes ran on the site from the 1950s onwards. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Final closure came on 30 April 2008. Brett photographed the hall in October 2015, as Sydney College of the Arts was preparing to vacate the Kirkbride Block after nearly two decades as the heritage building group's tenant.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Beautiful high ceilings with glass panes all the way up.

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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