Paint Shop

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 faded mural stretches along the left wall of a long workshop room at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW, its figures still legible beneath peeling paint. Collapsed ceiling panels have dropped onto the central floor, where scattered paint cans and debris lie across bare wooden boards. Gridded windows run the length of both long walls, and diagonal bars of afternoon light fall across the floor from the right.

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In situ

Paint Shop at The Asylum, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Paint Shop at The Asylum, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Paint Shop at The Asylum, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Paint Shop
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-040
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: 297 × 210 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 paint shop within the workshops at Kenmore. Paint tins and brushes are scattered across the timber floor. A long workbench runs along the wall under the windows. Glass-fronted storage cabinets stand along the back wall. The walls are plastered and painted, weathered through patches of damp. The work that was done here has been interrupted rather than wound down.

Kenmore maintained its own workshops to support a resident population that peaked at over 1,400 in the 1960s. The paint shop is one of those workshops, kept on through the working life of the site. The complex operated as a psychiatric hospital from 1895 until the Commonwealth sale in 2003 and was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A large open room with timber floorboards buckled and grey with dust. Paint tins sit scattered across the floor, lids off, contents long dried. Plaster has fallen from the ceiling in patches, exposing the framework beneath. Daylight fills the space through rows of tall sash windows. A low bench runs the length of the far wall. Blue and red wainscoting. A stepladder leans against the back corner. Sheets of board and debris cover the ground.

Brett Patman

The series

Kenmore Asylum

2020 · 75 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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