Wheelchair at Callan Park, a single wheelchair that has sat in one place for years if not decades.
Wheelchair at Callan Park, a single wheelchair that has sat in one place for years if not decades.

Wheelchair

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
19mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A wheelchair rests on a debris-strewn concrete floor, its back to the camera, angled toward two tall multi-paned windows where light cuts through the grime. Its tyres are flat and its frame worn, and the same light throws long shadows across the dust and debris around it. The room is somewhere within the buildings at Callan Park.

Edition
Open edition

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In situ

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Wheelchair
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-066
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
19 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
297 × 210 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

A chrome-framed wheelchair sits in the corner of a ward at Callan Park. The chair is fitted with cushioned seat and back, the upholstery stained. Plaster dust and debris cover the concrete floor around the chair. Two gridded windows on the outer wall admit a flat, grey light into the room. The walls of the ward are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008, when remaining patients were transferred to Concord Hospital. The hospital had operated continuously from 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, designed by James Barnet and Frederic Norton Manning.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A single wheelchair that has sat in one place for years if not decades.

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

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Anatomy · true ratio
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
Horizontal blinds on a tall, narrow window at Callan Park break the incoming daylight into even bars across the floor.
Backlit Blind$100.00
Sunlight streams through the windows of a disused clinic at Callan Park. The door marked Clinic hangs ajar, its dark timber stained and worn.
Clinic$100.00
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