Port Glory

This is a collection of images which formed an exhibition in the recent SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival in my home town of Adelaide, South Australia. These images were all taken around the Port Adelaide area, which is where I grew up and now reside. This is an exploration of the historic hub of Port Adelaide. From Kaurna* camp ground to bustling port, from industrial boom to economic slump; this is an area rich in lives gone by, in families grown, in stories told. The grittiness against the grand veeners, the whif of nostalga drifting down St Vincent Street from the old wool stores, the vacant shop fronts delicately contstructed and collecting dust. Evidence of an era gone by. We continue to inhabit these spaces, re-newed and re-worked. Loop paths and market places, street art and rustic facades, Egyptian architecture and palm trees waving in the wind. The past is ever in the present, with each step along the pavement it seeps on through. We cannot help but revel in the glory of the everyday, the glory of the Port. *The Kaurna people are the traditional land owners of the area known as the Adelaide Plains. Prior to white settlement, one of their camp grounds was on the banks of what is now known as the Port River.