Confinement

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/40 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rectangular shadows from a tall multi-paned window fall across the cracked and dusty floor of a small room at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. A white ribbed radiator sits beneath the sill. Peeling paint has pulled away from both walls in broad curling sheets, exposing the layers beneath, and high on the right wall a worn numeral or letter is still legible in the flaking surface.

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In situ

Confinement at The Asylum, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Confinement at The Asylum, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Confinement at The Asylum, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Confinement
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-012
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/40 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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 small patient room at Kenmore. The walls are plain plaster, painted and weathered through patches of damp. The floor is timber boards. A single window sits high in the outer wall. The room is empty of furniture; the fittings have been removed.

Kenmore was designed for 700 patients across 19 wards when it opened in 1895, the first purpose-built complete complex for mental health care in rural NSW. By the 1960s the hospital held over 1,400 patients, twice the original design capacity. The complex was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. The Commonwealth sold the property in 2003 and the NSW State Heritage Register listing followed on 1 April 2005, item 2930022. The small patient rooms in the residential buildings date from the design that opened with 700-patient capacity.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A bare room. Plaster cracks in long fractures across the walls. Paint peels away in thick curls, exposing layers of green and grey beneath. A cast-iron radiator sits below a tall multi-pane window, its glass still intact. Afternoon light falls through the grid and prints a sharp lattice pattern across the concrete floor. The floor is filthy, scattered with plaster chips and dust. Nothing else remains in the room. No furniture. No fittings.

Brett Patman

The series

Kenmore Asylum

2020 · 75 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

Print sizes

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