Heaters

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/2 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Cold metal heaters stand disused within an abandoned ward at Callan Park, a former psychiatric hospital in Sydney. Their rusted forms recall decades of institutional service.

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Print datasheet

Title: Heaters
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-026
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

Cold metal heaters stand within an empty ward at Callan Park. The heaters are wall-mounted, fitted along one side of the room at regular intervals. The casings are rusted across the panels, the supply pipework still attached at the connections. The room around the heaters is empty of furniture. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling.

Callan Park was designed for around 600 patients but held 1,500 by 1930, more than double its designed capacity. Inquiries into overcrowding in 1923, 1948, 1955 and 1961 all turned on the same problem. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital and closed on 30 April 2008. The site is now public parkland under Greater Sydney Parklands.

From the field notes

Cast-iron column radiators line the wall of a tiled room inside Callan Park. Three units sit evenly spaced along a black skirting rail, their fins dark with rust and dust. White ceramic tiles climb floor to ceiling. The wooden floorboards are scuffed bare, polished dull by decades of foot traffic. Low light enters through tall windows and catches the wet sheen of the 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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