Inside Cell socket once produced precision-engineered betting systems

once produced precision-engineered betting systems for racecourses across 29 countries

from 1975 to 1983

Heaters at Rozelle

The rear doors open onto overgrown grounds

Fractured concrete and opportunistic growth across the patio of Queen Victoria Sanitorium

Inside Cell socket once produced precision-engineered betting systemsA cell from Female Ward 9 inside Callan Park, photographed in 2019 after the Sydney College of the Arts had vacated the Kirkbride Complex. Peeling paint and worn surfaces surround a small window that frames a sliver of outside world, a reminder of what the pavilion type layout was meant to provide: light, air, and the therapeutic promise of the grounds beyond. Part of the Callan Park series.