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 pale green door and a workbench marked 'Green' on its side occupy a deteriorating room at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. Cracked plaster and peeling paint cover the walls and ceiling, and scattered papers and debris rest across the wooden floorboards. A built-in sink sits beneath one of the two windows, their roller blinds pulled low against dirty panes.

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In situ

Workbench at The Asylum, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Workbench at The Asylum, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Workbench at The Asylum, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

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: 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 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's patient population peaked at over 1,400 in the 1960s, twice its 1895 design capacity of 700 across 19 wards. The mechanical workshop was kept on through the working life of the site. Kenmore opened as a psychiatric hospital in 1895, the Commonwealth Department of Health sold the property in 2003, and the site was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005 as the Kenmore Hospital Precinct, State Heritage Register item 01728.

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

75 photographs

Kenmore Asylum is a former psychiatric hospital on the Wollondilly River at Goulburn in New South Wales, opened in 1895 as the Kenmore Lunatic Asylum and later run as Kenmore Psychiatric Hospital. Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect, designed it to the requirements of Frederic Norton Manning, Inspector-General of the Insane: pavilion wards of red brick with stone dressings under slate roofs, set in a V either side of a quadrangle, with a 54 ft clock tower over the kitchen and stores.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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