Stairs Up

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/10 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Looking up the stairs toward the second-level entrance of one of the ward buildings at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The complex was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Stairs Up
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-058
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/10 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

Looking up the stairs toward the second-level entrance of one of the ward buildings at Kenmore. The treads run up to a landing at head height, then turn through a quarter to reach the second-level door. The handrail is turned hardwood. The walls of the shaft are painted plaster, the colour worked back to bare plaster across patches of damp. A window at the landing admits daylight across the treads.

Kenmore was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005 as the Kenmore Psychiatric Hospital Complex, item 2930022. The complex opened in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete site for mental health care in rural NSW, designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. The ward buildings carry the proportions of the original residential design. The State Heritage listing remains active.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow stairwell climbs steeply between close walls. Paint peels in broad sheets from the plaster, exposing patches of red brick beneath. Iron handrails run the full length on both sides, their scrolled ends dark with oxidation. Debris sits on every tread. At the top, a panelled timber door stands closed beneath a gridded transom window. Daylight presses through the glass and spills down the upper steps, falling short of the lower flight.

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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