Ruined Bathroom

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Within Callan Park, a bathroom shows signs of profound decay. Porcelain fixtures are broken, and paint peels from the walls in long strips. Debris litters the floor, marking decades of neglect.

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Print datasheet

Title: Ruined Bathroom
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-046
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 bathroom at Callan Park. Porcelain fixtures are broken across the room, the basins cracked and the cistern lids displaced. Paint peels from the walls in long strips. Debris is scattered across the floor: tiles, plaster fragments, broken fittings. The walls are tiled to dado height, the tiles cracked across patches. The room has not been used in many years.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. The site went through a period of vandalism and neglect after the 1983 Richmond Report. A program of urgent maintenance commenced in 1991. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

From the field notes

White tiles line the walls, many still intact, others missing to expose brown adhesive beneath. A ceramic basin holds to the wall by its plumbing alone. Small green mosaic tiles cover the floor, scattered with broken tile fragments and dead leaves blown in through louvre windows. A stainless steel partition stands in the corner. Light enters flat and cold through frosted glass. The air feels 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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