Mark Niehus' four-part series cemented his status as a prominent poet and artist in Adelaide.

The Aboriginal flag flies high over its birthplace, Tarntanyangga/Victoria Square, a symbol of Aboriginal pride, rights and identity.

Independent auditing of Government is established in the position of the colonies first auditor general

Tony Rosella and Ash Rundle's environmentally and historically inspired artwork on the South Australian Police Building on Grenfell Street.

Leaning forward and shielding his eyes from the sun, this bronze figure of Sturt looks over Victoria Square, not the land he explored

Colonel William Light’s statue on Montefiore Hill pointing towards the centre of Adelaide has come to symbolise the city that Light laid out.

Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light's Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

Different, but a good likeness

In October 1896, within one year of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of film in Paris, the first public film screening in South Australia occurred at the Theatre Royal in Hindley Street

Artist Laura Lamington is responsible for a Furby craze that has been sweeping across Adelaide since around 2017. Paste-ups of the lovable creature can be spotted everywhere around town.

Paradoxically, the only parts of South Australia to experience occasional serious disruption of by flooding are the far distant sparsely populated deserts around Lake Eyre

The first South Australian Freemasons lodge formed in England, before the colony of South Australia was settled. 

The statue of inland explorer John McDouall Stuart at the corner of Victoria Square and Flinders Street, Adelaide, commemorates his place in Australian history

The shining steel and simple form of Knot typifies the work of sculptor Herbert (Bert) Flugelman.

The evolving profession in South Australia retained some centuries-old practices.

Lithuanian migrants came to South Australia as early as the 1840s, numbers expanded significantly following the Second World War. 

A statue to honour Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia, was a long time coming in Adelaide

Mike Maka’s mural features a tired rhinocerous carrying the city of Adelaide on its back.

Narisha Cash's mural acknowledges and celebrates the Kaurna people as the traditional owners and custodians of Adelaide and the Adelaide plains. 

Michelle Nikou's bronze sculpture stands in almost comic contrast with the plinths that populate North Terrace further west. 

Radicalism has been inherent in South Australian history from its founding as a free settlement.  Based upon the English radical liberal thought of its founders, the State's reputation grew as a progressive colony and the first to entirely separate church from state.

In general refugees have enriched and diversified South Australia’s religions, universities and schools, food, the arts, newspapers, clubs and sports.

The life size sculpture of Roy 'Mo' Rene on Hindley Street invites intimacy with his casual pose and expression of comic amusement. 

The iconic figure of of 'Simpson and his Donkey' looks over War Memorial Drive from the Angas Garden.

The bust of Sir Lawrence Bragg commemorates a South Australian Nobel Laureate

The Three Rivers fountain in Victoria Square commemorates the Royal Visit in 1963

Previously situated on Frome Road, near the corner of North Terrace, the Urban Cow Studio has been operating in Adelaide for around 25 years.

This bust, sculpted in 2015 by South Australian artist Robert Hannaford, commemorates Professor William Bragg.