Tea Room

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

Sunlight illuminates the decaying interior of the Callan Park tea room. Peeling paint reveals the room's past grandeur. Patients once gathered here for respite within the historic psychiatric hospital, now a silent space.

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Print datasheet

Title: Tea Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-054
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
Authenticity: C2PA verified →
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

Sunlight enters the tea room at Callan Park through windows along the outer wall. Peeling paint covers the walls of the room across the upper sections, the surface worked back to bare plaster in patches. The floor is timber boards, scuffed at the centre of the room where the working traffic passed. The fittings of the tea room have been removed.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. The recreation and tea-room facilities supported the patient population across the working life of the hospital. The complex was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and closed on 30 April 2008. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

From the field notes

A staff tea room inside one of Callan Park's institutional buildings. Pale green cabinetry lines the far wall, doors speckled with mould. Stainless steel benchtops run the length of the counter, dull under a film of grime. A soap dispenser and paper towel unit remain fixed to the tiled splashback. One lower cupboard hangs open, shelves bare. Terrazzo-style floor tiles are cracked in places, a few missing entirely. Through the open doorway, another empty room glows with cold light from tall windows.

— 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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