Spare Beds at The Asylum, a large common room with pale yellow walls and white-trimmed windows on three sides.
Spare Beds at The Asylum, a large common room with pale yellow walls and white-trimmed windows on three sides.

Spare Beds

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

Leftover mattresses and other debris in an otherwise empty room at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003.

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Spare Beds at The Asylum, a large common room with pale yellow walls and white-trimmed windows on three sides.Spare Beds at The Asylum, a large common room with pale yellow walls and white-trimmed windows on three sides.Spare Beds at The Asylum, a large common room with pale yellow walls and white-trimmed windows on three sides.Spare Beds at The Asylum, a large common room with pale yellow walls and white-trimmed windows on three sides.Spare Beds at The Asylum, a large common room with pale yellow walls and white-trimmed windows on three sides.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Spare Beds
Series
Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue
KAS-056
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
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

Leftover mattresses and other debris fill an otherwise empty room at Kenmore. The mattresses are stacked against one wall, three deep, the fabric darkened with age. Scattered debris lies across the floor: paper, plaster, fragments of joinery. The walls are painted plaster, weathered through patches of damp. The floor is timber boards.

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 buildings have been cleared in successive passes since the sale, with what was unneeded or unmoved left in place. The site was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A large common room with pale yellow walls and white-trimmed windows on three sides. Daylight pours through the glass but lands on nothing clean. Stained mattresses lie flat on the concrete floor. A brick fireplace sits centred on the far wall, flanked by two doors. Ceiling fans hang motionless from exposed beams. Paint blisters near the cornices. Debris, dirt, and flattened cardboard cover the ground.

Brett Patman

Kenmore Asylum

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

The anatomy view shows what this finish is as a physical object: paper margin, mat band, frame depth, acrylic profile. The comparison strip shows how each size sits relative to the others at true scale. Click a size or a finish to update both.

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07 MORE FROM KENMORE ASYLUM

73 other prints in this series

All prints
Fireplace at The Asylum, a wide formal room with pale green walls and coffered ceilings.
Fireplace $100.00
Autopsy Table at The Asylum, a dusty autopsy table in the morgue of an abandoned asylum.
Autopsy Table $100.00
In Between at The Asylum, a narrow corridor runs between a brick wall and a timber-panelled enclosure.
In Between $100.00
Workbench at The Asylum, a green six-panel door sits closed against a cracked plaster wall.
Workbench $100.00
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