Hand Basin

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A porcelain hand basin remains in a ward at Callan Park, a former psychiatric hospital. Its chipped surface and tarnished taps show decades of disuse. This fixture once served patients within these walls.

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Print datasheet

Title: Hand Basin
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-024
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

A porcelain hand basin remains in a ward at Callan Park. The basin is fixed to the wall at standing height, the porcelain chipped and stained around the drain. The taps are tarnished, the fittings still in place but no longer connected. The wall around the basin is tiled to dado height in small-format ceramic. The tiles are cracked across patches.

Callan Park operated as Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, with the Kirkbride Complex built between 1880 and 1884 by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning. The hospital was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

A white ceramic hand basin runs along the left wall, mounted low against grey square tiles. Two chrome gooseneck taps extend from the splashback, their joints darkened with oxidation. The concrete floor is scuffed and damp-looking, catching pale light from a doorway further down the corridor. Timber-framed windows and glass partitions line the right side. The air looks heavy and still.

— 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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