Room 7

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/4 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Timber floors scratched and scuffed across their full length. Overhead cabinets line the left wall. The door stands open, marked Room 7. Beyond it, another empty room catches window light.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Room 7
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-045
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/4 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

Timber floors scratched and scuffed across their full length in Room 7 at Callan Park. Overhead cabinets line the left wall of the room, the doors mostly intact, the contents removed. The door at the entrance stands open, the room number marked on the face. Beyond the doorway, another room catches the window light from its outer wall.

Callan Park's ward rooms were arranged across the ten ward blocks of the Kirkbride Complex, built between 1880 and 1884. The complex was designed for around 600 patients but held 1,500 by 1930. The hospital was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A heavy white door stands open. "Room 7" in black lettering on its face. The floor is dark, scuffed linoleum, worn to a dull sheen. Grey-painted walls run waist-high beneath a row of white storage panels. Fluorescent fittings line the ceiling. Cold light falls flat across the empty space. Through the doorway, another room. A glass partition. More bare surfaces. The air feels clinical and still.

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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