Cell Doors Colour:Raw Transformer Yard at Rozelle

Transformer Yard at Rozelle

Faded timber false-fronts line the main street of Western Village

Level Two at Bathurst

its framework catching the flat light of a site that processed dolerite aggregate for almost a century

and emptied as metal extraction wound down

Cell Doors Colour:Raw Transformer Yard at RozelleHeavy steel cell doors line the corridor of Female Ward 9 and 10 at Callan Park, rust staining the metal, paint peeling back through layers of institutional colour. The ward sits within the Kirkbride Complex, built between 1880 and 1885 on the principles of moral therapy: light, air, and distributed pavilions as the treatment itself. Part of the Callan Park series.