Ward Hallway at Callan Park, a pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor.
Ward Hallway at Callan Park, a pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor.

Ward Hallway

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
24mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

An empty hallway stretches through a former ward at Callan Park. Peeling paint reveals layers of history on walls that once witnessed the daily life of a significant psychiatric hospital.

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Ward Hallway at Callan Park, a pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor.Ward Hallway at Callan Park, a pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor.Ward Hallway at Callan Park, a pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor.Ward Hallway at Callan Park, a pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor.Ward Hallway at Callan Park, a pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Ward Hallway
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-062
Process
Giclée
Captured
29 October 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
3s s
ISO
100
Focal length
24 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

An empty hallway runs through one of the wards at Callan Park. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches and revealing layers of earlier paintwork underneath. The floor is timber boards, scuffed at the centre of the run. The hallway extends to a door at the far end of the building.

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. The hospital was proclaimed 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 pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor. Its kick plate is scratched bare. A wired glass panel reflects faint light from somewhere deeper inside the building. The terrazzo floor is polished smooth from decades of foot traffic. Partition walls on either side create narrow openings, their surfaces scuffed and stained at shoulder height. Thin strips of daylight edge in from both flanks. The air looks cold and still.

Brett Patman

Callan Park

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

Print sizes

The anatomy view shows what this finish is as a physical object: paper margin, mat band, frame depth, acrylic profile. The comparison strip shows how each size sits relative to the others at true scale. Click a size or a finish to update both.

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07 MORE FROM CALLAN PARK

92 other prints in this series

All prints
Entertainment Room at Callan Park, a curved wall of louvre and casement windows wraps around the room in a wide semicircle.
Entertainment Room $100.00
Rehabilitation Rooms at Callan Park, you can see the old wire mesh windows and a beautiful brightly lit Jacaranda out.
Rehabilitation Rooms $100.00
Backlit Blind at Callan Park, a tall window fills the centre of the frame, venetian blinds drawn closed but glowing.
Backlit Blind $100.00
Clinic at Callan Park, an old clinic in one of the wards that has long since seen any patients.
Clinic $100.00
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