The iconography of Australia is known the world over. Koala bears, kangaroos, the Sydney Opera House and golden sand beaches. But there is more, much more to this great and vast country. Deep within the interior, where the sun burns hot and the ground grows hard and dry, you find another iconic Australian feature - the vineyard. Set amongst the contrasting backdrop of the outback veldt, carpets of green vines accent the landscape in a swash of green verses tan and grey. Tin sheds filled with oak and grape evolving into a viticulturists dream. There is a spirit to this lonely landscape, an elegance to its remoteness at once quiet and reserved and alive with rich fermented blood flowing through its veins. Dirt floors, English oak marked with chalk hieroglyphics named barrels, muscat, Durif and Shiraz. Amongst the quiet cool of the sheds, surrounded only by the fermenting smells and the dust growing on the vintages the light plays through the cracks in the walls and the haphazard partly closed doors.
This series of photographs were made in the Rutherglen region of Victoria Australia at the wine houses, storage sheds and paddocks filled with some truly breathtaking landscapes and of course, wine.
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