Light filters into an empty room at Callan Park, illuminating dusty shelves. Wooden shelving spans the full length of a wall, its bays bare, a pale sack slumped on the concrete floor below.
Light filters into an empty room at Callan Park, illuminating dusty shelves. Wooden shelving spans the full length of a wall, its bays bare, a pale sack slumped on the concrete floor below.

Main Storage Room

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Light filters into an empty room at Callan Park, illuminating dusty shelves. Wooden shelving spans the full length of a wall, its bays bare, a pale sack slumped on the concrete floor below. Teal curtains hang at the window, partially drawn, admitting a strip of grey light across the debris at the base of the unit.

Edition
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In situ

Main Storage Room at Callan Park, unframed print displayed in situ on a wall.Main Storage Room at Callan Park, white-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Main Storage Room at Callan Park, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Main Storage Room at Callan Park, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Main Storage Room at Callan Park, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Main Storage Room
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-029
Process
Giclée
Captured
29 October 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
0.4s s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
297 × 210 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

Light filters into an empty room at Callan Park, illuminating dusty shelves. Wooden shelving spans the full length of a wall, its bays bare, a pale sack slumped on the concrete floor below. Teal curtains hang at the window, partially drawn, admitting a strip of grey light across the debris at the base of the unit. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches across the upper sections. The floor is concrete, scuffed at the working positions. The room is otherwise empty.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008, when remaining patients were transferred to Concord Hospital. The hospital had operated continuously from its proclamation on 1 August 1878. The site, on the Iron Cove foreshore at Rozelle, is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Timber shelving lines the wall in a tight grid, every cubbyhole emptied. Strips of adhesive tape cling to the shelf edges where labels used to be. The concrete floor is bare, scuffed, scattered with plaster debris. Teal curtains hang heavy beside a frosted window. Flat grey light fills the room. A single ventilation grille sits dead centre above the glass. The air looks thick and still.

Brett Patman

Callan Park

The series

Callan Park

95 photographs

Callan Park is a former psychiatric hospital at Rozelle on Iron Cove, proclaimed Callan Park Hospital for the Insane on 1 August 1878 and closed on 30 April 2008. Its Kirkbride Complex, built from 1880 to 1885 by Colonial Architect James Barnet with Inspector General of the Insane Frederic Norton Manning and Botanic Gardens director Charles Moore, was the first hospital in Australia designed on moral therapy principles: 10 sandstone ward blocks, 5 male and 5 female, linked by a continuous covered veranda in 61 hectares of parkland.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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07 MORE FROM CALLAN PARK

94 other prints in this series

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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
Horizontal blinds on a tall, narrow window at Callan Park break the incoming daylight into even bars across the floor.
Backlit Blind$100.00
Sunlight streams through the windows of a disused clinic at Callan Park. The door marked Clinic hangs ajar, its dark timber stained and worn.
Clinic$100.00
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