Basin Size:XL Double steel doors open onto

Double steel doors open onto a second room beyond

and the therapeutic promise of the grounds beyond

its empty windows and peeling paint marking the end of seasonal work that once brought gangs of men together each year

its arching shell streaked with rust

one of 59 structures Brett Patman photographed across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019

Basin Size:XL Double steel doors open ontoA porcelain basin, worn and stained, sits within one of the female wards of the Kirkbride Complex. Built between 1880 and 1885, Callan Park's ward blocks were designed as a curative environment, where the architecture itself was considered part of the treatment. The basin is what remains. Part of the Callan Park series.