The Back Kitchen at The Asylum, green paint peels from steel benchtop cabinets along the right wall.
The Back Kitchen at The Asylum, green paint peels from steel benchtop cabinets along the right wall.

The Back Kitchen

Provenance

Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rusting sinks and decaying worktops fill the back kitchen of the abandoned asylum. This once-bustling space prepared countless meals for patients and staff, now silent and neglected.

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The Back Kitchen at The Asylum, green paint peels from steel benchtop cabinets along the right wall.The Back Kitchen at The Asylum, green paint peels from steel benchtop cabinets along the right wall.The Back Kitchen at The Asylum, green paint peels from steel benchtop cabinets along the right wall.The Back Kitchen at The Asylum, green paint peels from steel benchtop cabinets along the right wall.The Back Kitchen at The Asylum, green paint peels from steel benchtop cabinets along the right wall.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
The Back Kitchen
Series
Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue
KAS-074
Process
Giclée
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
New South Wales, Australia
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
03 THE STORY

About this print

A small kitchen at the back of one of the residential buildings at Kenmore. Ivy has grown in through a broken window and across the bench at the wall. A rusted kettle sits on the bench. A drawer in the bench is half-open. Tattered curtains hang at the window above the ivy. The walls are tiled to dado height and plastered above. The floor is timber boards.

The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003. Creeper plants have moved through several of the buildings in the decades since, growing in through broken windows. Kenmore opened in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete complex for mental health care in rural NSW, designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. The site was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Green paint peels from steel benchtop cabinets along the right wall. White ceramic tiles above them are cracked and lifting. A small kettle and kitchen appliances sit where they were last placed, coated in grime. Dead leaves bank against the windowsill where vegetation pushes through broken panes. Floral curtains hang from a sagging rod, still drawn open. A cardboard box sits on the floor among scattered debris. Graffiti marks the far wall. The extractor fan above the window is seized. Light enters soft and green, filtered through the overgrowth outside.

Brett Patman

Kenmore Asylum

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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07 MORE FROM KENMORE ASYLUM

73 other prints in this series

All prints
Fireplace at The Asylum, a wide formal room with pale green walls and coffered ceilings.
Fireplace $100.00
Autopsy Table at The Asylum, a dusty autopsy table in the morgue of an abandoned asylum.
Autopsy Table $100.00
In Between at The Asylum, a narrow corridor runs between a brick wall and a timber-panelled enclosure.
In Between $100.00
Workbench at The Asylum, a green six-panel door sits closed against a cracked plaster wall.
Workbench $100.00
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