Room 1

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Light filters through a grimy window into a decaying room at Callan Park. Paint peels from the walls, revealing layers of plaster and time. Dust covers the floor, undisturbed for years.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Room 1
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-044
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 21 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

Light enters through a grimy window into one of the rooms at Callan Park. Paint peels from the walls in patches, revealing the layers of plaster and earlier paintwork underneath. Dust covers the floor, undisturbed across the years since the building was last used. The room is otherwise empty, the fittings removed.

Callan Park was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning, with ten ward blocks linked by a continuous covered veranda on the Iron Cove foreshore at Lilyfield. The hospital was proclaimed in 1878 and closed in 2008, after merging into Rozelle Hospital in 1976.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A white door marked "ROOM 1" stands open against a steel-framed partition wall. Glass panels run across the upper section. The lower half is clad in dark, scuffed sheeting. A cast iron radiator sits against the far left wall, its paint oxidised to a deep rust. The linoleum floor carries decades of wear, grey and faintly reflective. Light enters cold and flat. The air feels institutional.

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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