Green Room at Callan Park, a heavy timber door stands open against a wall painted deep green.
Green Room at Callan Park, a heavy timber door stands open against a wall painted deep green.

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

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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Green Room at Callan Park, a heavy timber door stands open against a wall painted deep green.Green Room at Callan Park, a heavy timber door stands open against a wall painted deep green.Green Room at Callan Park, a heavy timber door stands open against a wall painted deep green.Green Room at Callan Park, a heavy timber door stands open against a wall painted deep green.Green Room at Callan Park, a heavy timber door stands open against a wall painted deep green.
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
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

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.

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

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

Print sizes

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07 MORE FROM CALLAN PARK

92 other prints in this series

All prints
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
Backlit Blind at Callan Park, a tall window fills the centre of the frame, venetian blinds drawn closed but glowing.
Backlit Blind $100.00
Clinic at Callan Park, an old clinic in one of the wards that has long since seen any patients.
Clinic $100.00
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