I went to Yorke Peninsula to spend time at the salt lakes there. It’s a beautiful place: flat, wild and windswept.
The Yorke Peninsula is the land of the Narungga (traditionally spelled Nharangga) people. They have always lived on Yorke Peninsula. Their country extends as far north as Port Broughton and east to the Hummock Ranges. Their neighbours were the Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains and the Nukunu to the north, with whom the Narungga would meet for trade and ceremony. The Narungga nation is made up of four clans, the Kurnara in the north of the peninsula, Windera in the east, Wari in the west and Dilpa in the south.
I set my studio up on the veranda of one of the shacks at Point Souttar, near to where some friends of mine have a shack. Each day I’d go out to a different location, with pad and pencil. I’d sit and draw, wander around. Then I’d come home, lay my drop sheets on the veranda and start working from late afternoon and on into the night.
