Patio

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

A concrete patio at Callan Park shows signs of extensive decay. Sunlight illuminates its weathered surface, where vines slowly reclaim the space. This quiet corner reflects the former asylum’s long history.

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Print datasheet

Title: Patio
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-035
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
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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 concrete patio at Callan Park. The surface is weathered and scuffed, vines reaching in from the surrounding overgrowth to claim the edges. Sunlight falls across the concrete in flat panels. The patio sits against one of the buildings of the site, the wall behind plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches.

Callan Park's pavilion design was built around landscaped courtyards and airing courts. The Kirkbride Complex, built 1880 to 1884, was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, with linked ward blocks arranged on a main cross axis and connected by a continuous covered veranda. The site continued as Rozelle Hospital from 1976 until full closure on 30 April 2008. It is now public parkland.

From the field notes

A long corridor stretches toward a green exit sign at the far end. Painted brick lines the left wall. Aluminium ducting runs the length of the ceiling above dead fluorescent tubes. Heavy curtains hang from the windows on the right, half drawn, filtering a cold grey-green light across the tiled floor. Grime and scuff marks cover the tiles. A noticeboard hangs empty on the wall. The air looks still and damp.

— 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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