Sluice Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/4.5 · 1/4 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A dark sluice room within one of the nursing quarters at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. Sluice rooms were a standard fixture of clinical-era institutional design. Kenmore operated as a psychiatric hospital from 1895 until the Commonwealth sale in 2003.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Sluice Room
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-055
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter: 1/4 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: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

02 LOCATION

New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A dark sluice room within one of the nursing quarters at Kenmore. The walls are tiled to dado height in white ceramic, the tiles cracked and stained. The floor is concrete, sloped to a central drain. A stainless-steel sluice basin stands against one wall. The plumbing of the basin is plain steel pipe, exposed across the wall. The room is otherwise empty.

Kenmore operated as a psychiatric hospital from 1895 until the Commonwealth sale in 2003, with the wartime exception of the Australian Army military hospital between March 1941 and 1946. Sluice rooms were a standard fixture of clinical-era institutional design across the residential wards. The complex was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect, and was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow sluice room lined with white ceramic tiles to waist height. Above them, plaster bulges and peels in thick sheets, damp-stained grey-green. Porcelain sinks sit along the right wall, taps still attached. A sterilisation unit stands near the window. Stained glass panels with red floral motifs crown the casement frame, and outside, vegetation presses against the glass. Terrazzo flooring is visible beneath layers of grit and fallen plaster. The air looks heavy. Everything carries a film of moisture.

Brett Patman

The series

Kenmore Asylum

2020 · 74 photographs

Kenmore Asylum opened on Taralga Road, Goulburn, in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete mental health complex in rural New South Wales. The site was acquired in 1879 under the same Inspector-General who initiated Callan Park. The hospital closed around 2003 and was listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2005.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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