Dark green paint covers the walls of a room at Callan Park in a thick, uneven coat, the colour deepening toward the corners where the light does not reach.
Dark green paint covers the walls of a room at Callan Park in a thick, uneven coat, the colour deepening toward the corners where the light does not reach.

Green Room

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 13s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dark green paint covers the walls of a room at Callan Park in a thick, uneven coat, the colour deepening toward the corners where the light does not reach. Dark timber boards run toward a panelled door left ajar, the gap wide enough to show a strip of blue carpet in the room beyond. Photographed in 2015, seven years after the hospital closed.

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In situ

Green Room at Callan Park, unframed print displayed in situ on a wall.Green Room at Callan Park, white-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Green Room at Callan Park, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Green Room at Callan Park, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Green Room at Callan Park, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Green Room
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-023
Process
Giclée
Captured
29 October 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
13s s
ISO
100
Focal length
21 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

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Dark green paint covers the walls of a room at Callan Park in a thick, uneven coat, the colour deepening toward the corners where the light does not reach. Dark timber boards run toward a panelled door left ajar, the gap wide enough to show a strip of blue carpet in the room beyond. The room is empty of fittings.

Callan Park was proclaimed as a separate institution from Gladesville on 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 to a design by James Barnet and Frederic Norton Manning, modelled on the Chartham Down Hospital in Kent. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A heavy timber door stands open against a wall painted deep green. The panel moulding on the door face is worn smooth, its varnish darkened with age. Bare hardwood floorboards stretch into the room, scuffed and stained. Light enters from somewhere beyond the frame, catching the plaster wall in a pale wash that fades into shadow at the corners. The room is completely empty. No furniture. No fittings. Just green walls and bare floor.

Brett Patman

Callan Park

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.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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07 MORE FROM CALLAN PARK

94 other prints in this series

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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
Horizontal blinds on a tall, narrow window at Callan Park break the incoming daylight into even bars across the floor.
Backlit Blind$100.00
Sunlight streams through the windows of a disused clinic at Callan Park. The door marked Clinic hangs ajar, its dark timber stained and worn.
Clinic$100.00
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