Bathroom
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Inside Female Ward 9 & 10, a forgotten bathroom stands silent. Peeling paint and stained tiles reveal years of disuse. Cold light filters through a grimy window, illuminating the decay.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Bathroom
- Series
- Female Ward 9 and 10
- Catalogue
- FWA-008
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 1 March 2019
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 0.8s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 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
- National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
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A communal bathroom stripped back to its fixtures. Three porcelain basins line the right wall, chrome taps green with corrosion, exposed pipework running beneath. A squat ceramic bath sits against the far wall, its enamel dulled to grey. Terrazzo partitions divide the shower stalls on the left. The floor tiles are stained dark in patches where water has pooled and dried over years. Soft light enters through a single barred window. Plywood covers what was once a mirror.
Brett Patman
The series
Female Ward 9 and 10
Female Wards 9 and 10 sit within the Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park in Lilyfield, on the Parramatta River. The Kirkbride was designed in 1877 by Colonial Architect James Barnet in collaboration with Frederick Norton Manning, the NSW Inspector of the Insane, applying the American physician Dr Thomas Kirkbride's principles of moral therapy. Charles Moore, Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, designed the surrounding landscape. The complex - twenty-some sandstone neo-classical buildings with timber floors, slate roofs and copper downpipes, mostly quarried on site - was completed in 1885 and arranged symmetrically: five female wards at one end, five male wards at the other, separated by administrative buildings in the centre. The first female patients arrived from Gladesville Hospital on 19 December 1884 - twelve women in the first transfer. By June 1885 the asylum held 110 women and 303 men. Through the early 20th century many of the women confined here were not suffering from severe mental illness but conditions like postnatal depression, grief, anxiety, or social nonconformity that the medicine of the time pathologised. Callan Park closed in 2008. The Kirkbride Conservation Area is on the NSW State Heritage Register (#00818, gazetted 2 April 1999), protected under the Callan Park (Special Provisions) Act 2002. The 2020 Kirkbride CMP, prepared by GML Heritage and Tanner & Associates for Property NSW, is the gold-standard reference. The wards remain largely intact today.
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