Crumbling Stairwell

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Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A derelict stairwell in one of the residential buildings at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003 and was added to the NSW State Heritage Register in April 2005.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Crumbling Stairwell
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-014
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.4s 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 derelict stairwell in one of the residential buildings at Kenmore. The treads are timber, scuffed and split through. Sections of the plaster ceiling above have come down across the upper landing. The handrail is intact along the run, the balusters turned hardwood. The walls of the shaft are painted, the surface worked back to bare plaster across patches of damp. Light enters from a window at the upper landing and falls across the broken material on the floor.

The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003. Kenmore was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005 as the Kenmore Psychiatric Hospital Complex, item 2930022. The site 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 State Heritage listing remains active despite ongoing fabric decay in the residential quarters.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A carved timber newel post stands at the base of a carpeted staircase. Blue carpet, worn thin, climbs toward the upper storey. Dry leaves collect on the treads and scatter across the ground floor. Paint peels from the walls in large sheets, exposing bare plaster and red brick beneath an arched soffit. Graffiti marks the stairwell. A panelled door sits closed at the landing. Soft light enters from the left, catching the dust and debris that covers every surface.

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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