East End Drawings
The original drawings
Back in ‘95 I drew this set of sixteen images of Adelaide’s East End, exhibiting them in the front bar at The Austral Hotel on Rundle Street. I even made them into sets of snail-mail postcards and sold them around town.
I drew them as a fresh design graduate. I’d just returned from some incredible overseas adventures where I’d been drawing a lot of the places I’d travelled - Indian temples, Esfahan mosques, Petra ruins. Coming back to Adelaide I think I saw these familar streets with fresh eyes and more home-town affection.
Today I look at them with a lot of nostalgia. Not just for my twenties but for a time that wasn’t digital. I like that these drawings can be part of the record of these ‘analogue’ times.
The East End Art Trail
In 2024, as part of a Public Arts grant thanks to the City of Adelaide and Maras Group, they’ve been installed through the same East End streets. You can stand where they were drawn by following the East End Art Trail. The trail starts at Ebenezer Place and finishes at The Exeter front bar. Perfect.
East End prints
To celebrate these drawings being back on the streets, I’ve re-coloured and released them as fine art limited edition prints - available to buy through my East End Print Shop.