With an lifetime interest in art, graphics, typography and photography, I could be described as a visual person.

Since 1992, I have had several exhibitions and published five books, featuring the coastal lifestyle and culture from my home in Cronulla, NSW and The Whitsundays, QLD.

A strange obsession with vintage advertising signage has then led me to the recreation of typography and colours used within them.

I’m also keen to search out, record and reproduce elements through film, painting and digital photography to capture this forgotten early street art.

I am always discovering and producing new material and updating these galleries so please come back and visit anytime.

Thanks for viewing the website and I hope you have enjoyed the content created within it.

Craig Hempstead, Localimages

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Proust