Balcony

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/160 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A sunlit indoor balcony at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The complex was the first purpose-built complete site for mental health care in rural NSW, opened in 1895 with capacity for 700 patients across 19 wards.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Balcony
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-003
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/160 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 sunlit indoor balcony at Kenmore, running along the inside of one of the larger residential buildings. The balcony floor is timber, the boards laid wide. Tall windows line the outer wall, the panes intact, the timber sashes weathered through years of indirect exposure. Daylight enters across the length of the wall and falls across the floor. The space is open to the room behind, divided by a low timber rail. The room is otherwise empty. The light is what fills it.

Kenmore was the first purpose-built complete complex for mental health care in rural NSW when it opened in 1895, designed for 700 patients across 19 wards on a 340.5-acre property south of Goulburn. The complex was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. Patient numbers peaked at over 1,400 in the 1960s, twice the original design capacity. The Commonwealth sold the property in 2003 and the State Heritage Register listing followed on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow enclosed verandah runs between white-painted brick walls. Timber floorboards are grey with grime, scattered with curled brown leaves. Vines have threaded through the ceiling panels and crept down the window frames. A green door stands open at the far end, letting dense vegetation push inward. Afternoon sun falls through the bank of casement windows in sharp rectangles across the floor.

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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