Electrical Workshop

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The electrical workshop at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW, fitted out as a teaching room. A blackboard with chalked circuit equations, paper alphabet letters across the walls, a No Smoking sign, two chairs at the workbench. The complex operated as a psychiatric hospital from 1895 until 2003.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Electrical Workshop
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-021
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.8s 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

The electrical workshop at Kenmore, fitted out as a teaching room. A blackboard with chalked circuit equations runs along one wall. Paper alphabet letters line the walls above the blackboard. A No Smoking sign hangs to one side. Two chairs are pulled up to the workbench at the centre. The floor is timber boards. The room is set up for instruction rather than production.

Kenmore operated as a psychiatric hospital from 1895 until the Commonwealth sale in 2003. The complex maintained its own workshops to support a resident population that peaked at over 1,400 in the 1960s. The electrical workshop is one of those workshops, fitted out for instruction at some point in the working life of the site. Kenmore was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022. The State Heritage listing remains active.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A heavy timber workbench runs the length of the room, its surface scarred and darkened with use. Vinyl chairs sit empty on grimy floor tiles. A blackboard still carries chalk markings. Painted alphabet letters circle the upper walls in faded primary colours, wrapped from A through to Z. A "No Smoking" sign clings to the plaster near the doorway. Light falls through multi-pane windows, catching the dust that coats 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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