Country View

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/20 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A partially collapsed plaster ceiling above a bay window looking out across the Goulburn countryside at Kenmore. The 340.5-acre estate sits on Taralga Road on the Southern Tablelands of NSW.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Country View
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-013
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/20 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 bay window at Kenmore looks out across the Goulburn countryside. Above the window the plaster ceiling has partially collapsed, fallen across the floor below. The bay itself is timber-framed, the sashes still in place, the panes intact. The view from the window runs out across the property to the country beyond. The room is otherwise empty. The damage above and the view through the window are what frame the photograph.

Kenmore sits on a 340.5-acre property on Taralga Road, on the Southern Tablelands of NSW, south of Goulburn. The colony of NSW purchased the estate in October 1879 for £1,252, under Frederick Norton Manning, Inspector-General of the Insane. Construction began in 1894 and Kenmore opened in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete site for mental health care in rural NSW, designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. The complex held 700 patients across 19 wards at opening and over 1,400 by the 1960s. The Commonwealth sold the property in 2003 and the NSW State Heritage Register listing followed on 1 April 2005. The bush has worked in at the edges since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Ornate plaster mouldings cover the ceiling, split open where sections have collapsed onto the floor below. A bay window fills the far wall, its frosted panes filtering pale light across a room thick with debris. Chunks of plaster, timber offcuts, dust. A stripped fireplace sits to the left. A cast-iron radiator clings to the right wall beside a doorway. Graffiti marks the plaster above it.

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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