Ward Windows

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/13 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A row of windows running along an empty room in one of the residential buildings at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. 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: Ward Windows
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-071
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: 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 row of windows runs along an empty room in one of the residential buildings at Kenmore. The windows are tall sashes, evenly spaced across the wall. The panes are intact, the timber sashes weathered. Daylight enters across the full length of the wall and falls across the floor. The walls along the inner sides of the room are plastered and painted. The floor is timber boards.

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. 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 and the SHR listing followed on 1 April 2005, item 2930022.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Five tall windows line the ward wall, each divided into small panes with transom lights above. Green half-drawn blinds hang from a few. Outside, dense vegetation presses close against the glass, filtering daylight into pale rectangles that fall across the concrete floor. Pressed metal ceiling panels remain mostly intact overhead. Wooden wardrobes stand at either end of the room, doors open, empty. The floor is scuffed and bare. Dust sits in the scratches.

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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