Workbench

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/6 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A workbench in the mechanical workshop at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. The complex maintained its own workshops to support a population that peaked at over 1,400 patients in the 1960s.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Workbench
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-073
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/6 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 workbench in the mechanical workshop at Kenmore. The bench is timber, the surface scuffed and marked across decades of use. Tools have been removed; the bracketry of mounted equipment remains across the surface. The floor below is concrete, marked with the outlines of larger equipment since removed. The walls behind the bench are plastered and painted, weathered through patches of damp.

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

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A green six-panel door sits closed against a cracked plaster wall. Bare timber floorboards run the length of the room, grey with grime. To the left, a workbench with pale green drawers holds scattered objects. A wall-mounted sink beside the door carries debris on its rim. Roller blinds hang half-drawn over two windows, filtering weak light across the ceiling where black mould has spread in clusters.

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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