Bathroom Wall flock of birds light filtering through the grime

light filtering through the grime to what lies below

Built at State Dockyard

its painted walls peeling back through layers of colour applied over nearly a century of continuous use

Rusting metal lockers line the walls of a worker changing room in the Ogurawa settlement

its derelict machinery standing in rows beneath diffused light

Bathroom Wall flock of birds light filtering through the grimeLayers of peeling paint on a stained bathroom wall in Female Ward 9 and 10, a ceramic fixture still clinging to the plaster. The Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park was built from 1880 as Australia's first purpose built hospital for moral therapy, its pavilion wards designed to heal through light and air. Part of the Callan Park series.