Obstacles

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Patches of light through a series of open doors across a dark corridor at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The complex was the first purpose-built complete site for mental health care in rural NSW when it opened in 1895.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Obstacles
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-038
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.3s 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

Patches of light across a dark corridor at Kenmore, falling through a series of open doors along the run. The doors are panelled timber, painted in the institutional palette. The corridor floor is timber boards. The walls are painted plaster. The light from each open door reaches partway across the floor before the next obstacle of shadow.

Kenmore was the first purpose-built complete site 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 on a 340.5-acre property south of Goulburn. By the 1960s patient numbers peaked at over 1,400. The Commonwealth sold the property in 2003 and the NSW State Heritage Register listing followed on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow corridor, concrete walls streaked with damp. A pale green door hangs open at an angle, blocking most of the passage. Dark mould covers the floor in thick, uneven patches. Beyond the door, a second timber door stands ajar. A red exit sign glows faintly near the ceiling. Thin bands of light fall across the left wall from an unseen source. The air looks heavy, close.

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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