The Green Room

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside Callan Park, a former psychiatric hospital in Sydney, a room slowly succumbs to decay. Layers of green paint peel from the walls. This space once housed patients, now it stands silent, witnessing time.

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Print datasheet

Title: The Green Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-056
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

Layers of green paint peel from the walls of a room at Callan Park. The room is empty of fittings, the walls plastered and painted in successive layers across the working decades. The current green is peeling back to reveal the earlier colours underneath. Dust covers the floor. The room is otherwise empty.

Callan Park was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, with the Kirkbride Complex built between 1880 and 1884 to a design by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning. 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.

From the field notes

Deep green paint covers the walls in uneven, overlapping strokes. The colour is thick and matte, applied without care for finish. Above the brush marks, original cornice moulding remains intact, its pale plaster exposed where the green stops short. A louvre window lets in flat white light that falls across the floorboards and catches the grain of worn timber. The room is empty. Dust sits undisturbed.

— 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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