Dead Leaf Carpet

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/50 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A layer of dead leaves across the floor of one of the smaller residential rooms at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The complex has been largely vacant since 2003.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Dead Leaf Carpet
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-016
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/50 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: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

02 LOCATION

New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A layer of dead leaves across the floor of one of the smaller residential rooms at Kenmore. The leaves have drifted in across years of vacancy and lie thick across the length of the floor. The walls are painted plaster, the colour faded. A small window admits a thin light from one side. The room is otherwise empty.

The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003. Kenmore was the first purpose-built complete complex for mental health care in rural NSW when it opened in 1895, 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 site was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022. The smaller residential rooms have taken the longest to settle into vacancy; the leaves have been arriving each autumn since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Dried leaves carpet the floor of a large common room, banked against the walls in thick drifts. A stone fireplace sits cold on the far wall. Afternoon light enters through tall multi-pane windows, casting a narrow blade across the debris. Pressed-metal ceiling panels run overhead, still intact. A ceiling fan hangs motionless. Stoneware crocks sit abandoned in the corner. The air looks thick and still. The smell would be leaf rot and damp plaster.

Brett Patman

The series

Kenmore Asylum

2020 · 74 photographs

Kenmore Asylum opened on Taralga Road, Goulburn, in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete mental health complex in rural New South Wales. The site was acquired in 1879 under the same Inspector-General who initiated Callan Park. The hospital closed around 2003 and was listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2005.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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