The Attic

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/2 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A long top-level space at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW, with a repeating pattern of sleeper-frame timber overhead. The Vernon-designed core is the largest example of work by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: The Attic
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-060
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/2 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 long top-level space at Kenmore, with a repeating pattern of sleeper-frame timber overhead. The frame runs the full length of the room, set at regular intervals against the underside of the roof. The floor below is bare timber boards. The walls of the space are unplastered, the brick courses of the upper wall exposed. The space carries the working fabric of an attic rather than the finish of a residential room.

The Vernon core at Kenmore is the largest single body of work by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect. The complex opened in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete site for mental health care in rural NSW, designed for 700 patients across 19 wards on a 340.5-acre property south of Goulburn. The State Heritage Register listing describes the Vernon core as the finest corporate expression of Federation Free architecture in Australia. The Commonwealth sold the property in 2003.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Timber roof trusses repeat in deep symmetry down the length of the attic space. Steel cross-bracing and white-painted hardwood beams angle sharply to a central walkway. The concrete floor is bare, scuffed with decades of grit. Overhead, a single circular vent sits flush in the tongue-and-groove ceiling. Light enters from narrow openings on each side, cool and diffused. At the far end, a doorway glows warm against the grey.

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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