Washrooms

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/8 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside Callan Park, original washroom facilities show their age. Faded tiles and corroded fixtures stand where patients once attended to daily routines within the former psychiatric hospital.

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Print datasheet

Title: Washrooms
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-064
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

Original washroom facilities at Callan Park. The walls are tiled to dado height in small-format ceramic, the tiles cracked and faded across patches of damp. The fittings of the washroom are corroded at the taps, drains, and basin fittings. The floor is concrete, scuffed at the working positions. The fittings have been left in place since the building was last used.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008. The site, on the Iron Cove foreshore at Lilyfield, is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands. The Kirkbride Complex, Garryowen House and Broughton Hall were listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in April 1999.

From the field notes

Glazed tile walls line a communal washroom inside Callan Park. A cast-iron radiator sits beneath high windows, its surface dark with oxidation. Glass partition screens divide the space into open cubicles. A porcelain basin hangs from exposed pipework. The floor tiles are slick with grime, their pattern barely visible. Flat light enters through frosted panes and settles on every wet surface.

— 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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