Clocktower Ladders

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

Looking down through the ladders that connect the levels of a clock tower at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The clock tower sits within Walter Liberty Vernon's core complex, the largest example of work by the first NSW Government Architect.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Clocktower Ladders
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-011
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

Looking down through the ladders that connect the levels of a clock tower at Kenmore. The shaft of the tower is timber-framed, with platforms set between each floor reached by ladder rather than by stair. The view runs straight down from the upper platform to the floor at the base of the shaft. The clock mechanism the tower was built to house is not present. What remains is the structure that held it.

The clock tower sits within the Vernon-designed core at Kenmore. Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect, designed the complex that opened in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete site for mental health care in rural NSW. The State Heritage Register listing describes the Vernon core as the largest single body of his work and the finest corporate expression of Federation Free architecture in Australia. Kenmore was designed for 700 patients across 19 wards at opening on a 340.5-acre property south of Goulburn. Patient numbers peaked at over 1,400 in the 1960s. The Commonwealth sold the property in 2003 and the SHR listing followed on 1 April 2005.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Rough concrete block walls rise vertically on all sides, narrowing toward a steel ladder framework bolted overhead. Two slit windows cut horizontal bands of pale light across the shaft. The space is tight, industrial, built for access rather than occupation. A small rusted steel hatch sits recessed into the far wall. Cables run taut along the brickwork. The air feels close and cold.

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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