Slots of Light

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/5 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A chair in a dimly lit room at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW, with slats of light falling across the floor from a partly shuttered window. The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Slots of Light
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-053
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/5 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 chair stands in a dimly lit room at Kenmore. Slats of light fall across the floor from a partly closed window on one side of the room. The chair is timber, plain-framed, set facing the window. The floor is timber boards. The walls are painted plaster, weathered through patches of damp. The light from the window is the only feature in the room beyond the chair itself.

The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003. Kenmore opened in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete complex for mental health care in rural NSW, designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. The residential rooms hold only what has been left or carried in since the buildings were sold. The site was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A single vinyl chair sits near two windows in an otherwise empty room. Venetian blinds, buckled and broken in places, filter green-tinged light across the floor. Plaster has lifted from the upper walls and ceiling in dark, damp patches. Grit and debris coat every surface. A metal housing unit is mounted low on the right wall. The air looks thick. Still.

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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