Have you ever wondered whether something broken, abandoned, or forgotten could still hold beauty?

Artist Heather Petty invites you to see exactly that at the Naracoorte Regional Art Gallery.

Her photographic exhibition, ‘Long Exposure of Memory’, now on display until December 12, reveals striking beauty within decaying rubble and discarded objects—crystal glasses, comic books, clothing spilling from old suitcases—and the way buildings shift and weather with time, wind, and rain.

Heather spent the past seven years capturing these fading memories in and around her hometown of Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula, transforming remnants of the past into haunting and poetic works of art. 

This article appeared in the Naracoorte News, 26 November 2025.