Pink Bedroom

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1.6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A large pink-painted room at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW, of a scale and shape consistent with a dormitory ward lined with beds along both walls. The complex was designed for 700 patients across 19 wards at opening in 1895.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Pink Bedroom
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-043
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1.6s 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 large pink-painted room at Kenmore. The proportions are dormitory scale: the room runs the length of one of the wings, with windows along the outer wall. The floor is timber boards. The walls are painted in a single tone of pink across their full height. The scale and shape are consistent with a dormitory ward lined with beds along both walls.

Kenmore was designed for 700 patients across 19 wards at opening in 1895, the first purpose-built complete complex for mental health care in rural NSW. By the 1960s the hospital held over 1,400 patients, twice the original design capacity. The dormitory wards date from the original residential fabric. The site was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. The Commonwealth sold the property in 2003 and the SHR listing followed on 1 April 2005.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A large empty room stripped back to bare plaster. The walls carry a faint pink wash, uneven and fading where moisture has worked through. Pressed metal panels line the ceiling in floral relief. A stone fireplace sits centred on the far wall, its mantle removed. Casement windows run along both sides, some with frosted glass, others with roller blinds half drawn. A ceiling fan hangs motionless. The floor is concrete slab, dirty, scuffed, reflecting weak light from the windows. No furniture. No fittings. Just scale and stillness.

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

Print sizes

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