Teaching Table at The Asylum, a heavy timber desk sits at the centre of a disused classroom.
Teaching Table at The Asylum, a heavy timber desk sits at the centre of a disused classroom.

Teaching Table

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 0.6s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The central teaching table in the electrical workshop classroom at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. A blackboard with chalked circuit equations runs the length of the left wall. Paper alphabet letters line the walls above. Kenmore opened in 1895 as a psychiatric hospital with workshops for training.

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Teaching Table at The Asylum, a heavy timber desk sits at the centre of a disused classroom.Teaching Table at The Asylum, a heavy timber desk sits at the centre of a disused classroom.Teaching Table at The Asylum, a heavy timber desk sits at the centre of a disused classroom.Teaching Table at The Asylum, a heavy timber desk sits at the centre of a disused classroom.Teaching Table at The Asylum, a heavy timber desk sits at the centre of a disused classroom.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Teaching Table
Series
Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue
KAS-059
Process
Giclée
Captured
1 March 2020
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
0.6s 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

The central teaching table in the electrical workshop classroom at Kenmore. A blackboard runs the length of the left wall, chalked with circuit equations. Paper alphabet letters line the walls above the blackboard. The floor is timber boards. The walls are plastered and painted. The room is set up for instruction rather than for production work.

Kenmore operated as a psychiatric hospital from 1895 until the Commonwealth sale in 2003. The complex maintained its own workshops to support a resident population that peaked at over 1,400 in the 1960s. The electrical workshop is one of those workshops, fitted out for instruction at some point in the working life of the site. The site was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A heavy timber desk sits at the centre of a disused classroom. Coloured alphabet letters run along the upper walls, some missing, others curled at the edges. A blackboard on the left still carries chalk notes listing colours and electrical formulas. The clock above has stopped. Fluorescent tubes hang dead from the low ceiling. Linoleum tiles are cracked and grey with grit. Light enters through three sash windows, flat and cold.

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

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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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