Rehabilitation Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 16mm · f/8.0 · 1/13 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Frosted multi-panel windows line the right wall of a vacant room in the Kirkbride Block, throwing long pale reflections across the dark, polished concrete floor. A stainless steel bench runs along the left wall, and two cast-iron radiators remain in place, one beneath the windows and one near the door. A single white door stands open onto a corridor beyond.

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In situ

Rehabilitation Room at Callan Park, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Rehabilitation Room at Callan Park, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Rehabilitation Room at Callan Park, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Rehabilitation Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-041
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/13 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 16 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

A large vacant room at Callan Park. The walls are pale green, the paint peeling in patches across the surface. Frosted glass windows diffuse a flat light across the polished concrete floor. A cast-iron radiator sits beneath one of the windows. A ceiling fan hangs still above the room. The fittings of the rehabilitation function have been removed.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008. The hospital had operated continuously from 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by James Barnet and Frederic Norton Manning. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Diffused light presses through frosted glass panels, flooding the polished concrete floor. The surface is scratched and scuffed, worn smooth by decades of foot traffic. Pale green walls rise to a high corrugated ceiling. A single fan hangs motionless. Cast-iron radiators sit beneath the windows, long cold. Stainless steel benchtops line the far wall. A door stands open to a dim corridor beyond. The room is empty. The air feels still and clinical.

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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