Top Floor Garden

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 15mm · f/8.0 · 1/13 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Creeper plants growing across the top-floor exterior of one of the buildings at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003 and the State Heritage listing remains active.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Top Floor Garden
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-068
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/13 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 15 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: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

02 LOCATION

New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Creeper plants have grown across the top-floor exterior of one of the buildings at Kenmore. The plants cover the wall in a single mass, leaves crossed over one another in layers. Sections of brick are visible where the growth thins. A timber window-frame is visible behind the creeper at one position along the wall.

The complex has been largely vacant since the Commonwealth sale in 2003. Creeper plants have moved across the exteriors of several of the buildings in the decades since. 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 site was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005, item 2930022. The State Heritage listing remains active.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A tall sash window sits recessed in an alcove on the upper floor. Georgian-style mouldings frame the opening, their white paint lifting in fine curls. Plaster fragments and grit cover the floorboards. Green branches press against the lower panes from outside, dense enough to filter the daylight into a cool, underwater tone. The air in here smells like damp chalk.

Brett Patman

The series

Kenmore Asylum

2020 · 74 photographs

Kenmore Asylum opened on Taralga Road, Goulburn, in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete mental health complex in rural New South Wales. The site was acquired in 1879 under the same Inspector-General who initiated Callan Park. The hospital closed around 2003 and was listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2005.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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