Autopsy Table

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/2 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A steel autopsy table at the centre of a small room at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. Long empty shelves run the length of one wall. Kenmore opened in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete complex for mental health care in rural NSW; it operated until the Commonwealth sale in 2003.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Autopsy Table
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-002
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/2 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: 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

New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A steel autopsy table stands at the centre of a small room at Kenmore. The surface is bare metal, marked across the decades of use, the edge bevelled and channelled to drain. Long shelves of painted timber run the length of one wall, the shelving long emptied. The walls are plaster, the floor bare boards. A single window admits a thin side light. The room is otherwise empty. The table and the shelves are what remains of the work that was done here.

Kenmore opened in 1895 on a 340.5-acre property on Taralga Road, south of Goulburn, NSW. It was the first purpose-built complete complex for mental health care in rural NSW, designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. The State Heritage Register listing describes the Vernon core as the finest corporate expression of Federation Free architecture in Australia. The complex was designed for 700 patients across 19 wards at opening and held over 1,400 by the 1960s. The Commonwealth sold the property in 2003 and Kenmore was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022. The listing remains active.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A dusty autopsy table in the morgue of an abandoned asylum.

Brett Patman

The series

Kenmore Asylum

2020 · 74 photographs

Frederic Norton Manning, NSW Inspector-General of the Insane, acquired 340.5 acres on Taralga Road, Goulburn, for £1,252 in October 1879. Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect, designed the asylum complex. Kenmore opened in 1895 with capacity for 700 patients across 19 wards.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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