Open Door at Callan Park, a narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed.
Open Door at Callan Park, a narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed.

Open Door

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Through an open door, a desolate room at Callan Park is visible. Peeling paint covers the walls of this former mental asylum, which closed in 2008.

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Open Door at Callan Park, a narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed.Open Door at Callan Park, a narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed.Open Door at Callan Park, a narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed.Open Door at Callan Park, a narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed.Open Door at Callan Park, a narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Open Door
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-033
Process
Giclée
Captured
29 October 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
4s 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

Through an open door at Callan Park, a room beyond is visible. The door is panelled timber, painted in the institutional palette of the hospital's working years. The room beyond is empty, the walls plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches across the surfaces. The floor visible through the doorway is timber boards.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008, when remaining patients were transferred to Concord Hospital. The hospital had operated continuously since 1 August 1878. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands and is protected by the Callan Park (Special Provisions) Act 2002.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed. Two-tone walls split the space: dark teal above, pale blue below. The paint is intact, institutional, deliberate. Light spills through open doorways on either side, falling across polished linoleum scarred with grit and small debris. A cast-iron radiator sits against the left wall. The ceiling is low. The air feels still and cold.

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

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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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