Welcome to the Print Shop!
Sketched in Adelaide’s East End in 1995, exhibited at The Austral Hotel and then sold as postcards, these drawings are all available to now buy as fine art giclée prints, in twenty-first century colour as well as the original black and white.
The Fine Art prints are signed by me and are in an edition of 100. They’re printed on FSC approved Canson paper and are A3 size (297mm x 420mm).
A few different Posters are available too. Some are A0 poster-size (841mm x 1189mm) and printed on matt recycled paper.
Postage. Prints are carefully packaged and posted Australia wide via Australia Post at standard rates ($15 per package). Local pickup available too.
Any enquiries, please get in touch.
Fine art prints
The beautiful old East End market facade, surrounding the same precinct today. In the late eighties I worked as a waitress for a gala-event held inside these old produce markets just before development, with a sparkly, leggy Rhonda Burchmore can-canning up on stage.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
Tandanya means ‘place of the red kangaraoo’ in the language of Adelaide’s First Nations people, the Kaurna. I’m not sure if I knew that back in 1995. Over the last nearly 30 years the language has grown stronger - and I hope our knowledge of the Kaurna people has too. I think we’re starting to imagine the river red gums and well-tended grasslands that once covered the country where Adelaide stands today.
Here are some other Kaurna words; ‘tarnda’ is a male red kangaroo, ‘kurlo’ a female red kangaroo. ‘Karrawirra parri’ is the name for the River Torrens, which means redgum forest river.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
The Cow was a place of fun and welcomed all makers. There was a pottery studio out the back, excellent exhibitions, later a comedy-club upstairs and many parties. One of my favourite parties had a ‘Tight As You Like’ dress code, a bingo wheel with multiple guest callers, and a spectacular floral tribute to our then-monarch. Those really were the days!
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
Gerard & Goodman was once South Australia’s biggest company - manufacturing, importing, retailing and repairing things electric. This view on Tavistock Lane was its bulk store rear entrance, with its storefront on Synagogue Place.
I think those brick buildings on the left may have once been stables from the leatherwork / saddlery on Rundle Street.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
Miss Gladys Sym Choon - our little window into the world of fashion. A gorgeously detailed and original shopfront, a store beautifully put together by Joff and Razak since 1991. Miss Gladys herself ran the store from 1923, selling napery, embroidery and lingerie that she imported from Shanghai. She was South Australia’s first woman to form her own business and import goods from overseas.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
Frank never cut my hair, but I’m not a gent! I do remember him being generous with letting me tuck myself in at the back of his barbershop and draw, while he snipped away, looking off into the distance down Rundle Street.
Frank cut hair for 65 years in Adelaide’s East End, starting the year he arrived with his family from Sicily, in 1957 aged 17 (he learnt to cut hair at age 9). This drawing was in his Rundle Street barbershop, which in 1995 sat opposite Al Fresco’s and The Falaffel House and next door to Ruby’s Cafe.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
Start at The Austral, end at The Exeter. Mostly Friday nights. Watching friends in bands, sticky floors, and beer. Lots of beer.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
This mural sat underneath today’s ‘Be Friendly’ by Matt Stuckey on Sym Choon Lane.
I don’t know much about this mural, but taking a closer look at the drawing there’s some amazing Australian women artists. Some I know; Joy Hester, Nora Heysen, May Gibbs, Thea Proctor, Dorrit Black, Margaret Preston. Other women I don’t know; Margaret Thomas, Dora Ohlfsen, Theodora Cowan, Alice Bell, Mildred Lovett, Nancy Clifford, Ola Cohn...
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
If you can find the original drawing spot, this scene hasn’t really changed. Plumbing surprisingly so.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
This was a vacant lot that sat opposite The Exeter on Rundle Street for a while - the mural is painted on the western side of A.A. Brice & Son building, now hidden by surrounding buildings.
Adelaide’s favourite daubist Driller Jet Armstrong painted this ‘Life After Fringe’ mural, asking the question even back then, ‘What do we do in Adelaide when it’s not mad March’?
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
Noisy, opened late, delicious and simple Italian cuisine. I learnt about calzone’s here and just how good I thought double-anchovies on a pizza was!
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
I loved this café and it’s Italian food and style. Teenage memories of lounging about way too long in Italian plastic furniture, drinking capuccinos and devouring lemon and pistachio gelati.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
I love this old building facade, the big letters and those curvy windows. Takes me even further back to that 1981 Christmas when my sparkly-gold-seat, sissy-bar, dragster-handlebars bike from Super Elliott’s arrived.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
Synagogue Place was named after Adelaide’s first synagogue, originally built here in 1860 and rebuilt in the thirties with an Art Deco facade.
The synagogue itself has gone on to have quite a music career - I remember in the nineties seeing Beck, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Michelle Shocked. The Beastie Boys too, supporting Money Mark. Sure Pavement were there too on the balcony watching on.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
It seems that the Exeter was the epicentre! Alongside was a tobacconist, Tapas bar, B# records, Vego and Loven it, Thor Travel at the end... anyone?
I think this was drawn from the Charlick Building opposite.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
This place really hasn’t changed - rooms full of various discussion. Great front bar, good food, Coopers on tap, bit of art around, bands out the back. ‘Tourist Dies of Thirst’ newspaper headline still sitting in the front bar. Graffiti always good.
Drawn by Nicole Stewart in Adelaide’s East End, 1995. Coloured-in 2023.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
Posters
Exeter front bar.
Printed on matt recycled paper (200gsm).
Size A0 (841mm x 1189mm).
Poster with all 16 drawings.
Fine art giclée print on FSC approved Canson paper.
Size A2 (420mm x 594mm).
Follow the trail
Revisit the nineties with these original drawings, now installed in the same East End streets of Adelaide where they were drawn.
First exhibited in The Austral’s front bar in 1995, these drawings by Adelaide local Nicole Stewart will bring out your nineties-nostalgia.
Use the QR code to follow the trail - you’ll find the drawings wrapped, stuck and hung through the East End. There’s also Original Drawing Spots where you can stand in the original drawing location. There’s extra info too.
The trail ends at The Exeter where you’ll be happy to know, things haven’t changed a bit.
