Green Room

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

Green paint peels from the walls of a room within Callan Park's abandoned psychiatric hospital. Dust motes dance in the light, illuminating decaying textures and forgotten spaces.

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Print datasheet

Title: Green Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-023
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

Green paint peels from the walls of a room at Callan Park. The walls are plastered, the paint applied in successive coats across the working decades and now peeling back to reveal the earlier layers underneath. Dust hangs in the air through the light entering from the window on the outer wall. The floor is timber boards, scuffed and stained. 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 Frederick 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.

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

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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