The Grand Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/4.5 · 1/250 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Red and white carpet, bold enough to have been garish when new, fades under squares of morning light from the bay windows at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. Partially drawn roller blinds cut the light unevenly across the floor, a wooden crate and draped fabric against the right-hand wall. A brick fireplace occupies the left wall, its opening boarded over, and wallpaper peels above the skirting boards.

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In situ

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: The Grand Room
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-064
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter: 1/250 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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 grand reception room at Kenmore. A heavily patterned floral carpet covers the floor. A stone fireplace stands on the left wall, the hearth and surround in dressed stone. A three-sided bay window rises along the rear wall, opening to the country grounds beyond. The ceiling above is pressed metal, the pattern ornate across its full surface. The walls between the windows and the fireplace are plastered and painted.

The Vernon-designed 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. 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

A deep crimson and grey floral carpet covers the entire floor, still intact. Sunlight falls through a bay window in sharp rectangular blocks, lighting up the pattern in vivid red. Pressed metal panels line the ceiling in geometric relief. A marble or slate fireplace surround sits to the left, its hearth dark and empty. Roller blinds hang torn from the side windows. Green paddock is visible outside. The room is large, stripped bare, and completely still.

Brett Patman

The series

Kenmore Asylum

2020 · 75 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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