Hand Basin

Provenance

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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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Hand Basin
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-024
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 2.5s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 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

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.

04 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 · 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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