Different, but a good likeness

The John Jefferson Bray Memorial Fountain commemorates the life of a senior judge, scholar and poet

Creating and installing King Edward VII’s statute took eight months longer than the period of his reign

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

‘My aim is to leave the world better for women’ – Mary Lee was an activist, suffragist and unionist

This scale model of the spiral staircase in the Newmarket Hotel is just 600 millimetres high, but represents months of careful craftwork. It was made by a young man named Walton Banks and exhibited at the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition in 1887.

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. 

Since 1894 Queen Victoria has looked imperiously over the bustle of Victoria Square

One of many around the world, this statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns was unveiled in 1894

The spirit of Antarctic explorer and professor of geology, Sir Douglas Mawson, is captured in the bust by John Dowie

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

The bust of Sir Mark Oliphant on North Terrace honours an eminent scientist and the state’s first South Australian-born governor.

The bronze bust of Sir Mellis Napier, sculpted by eminent South Australian artist John Dowie, commemorates his distinguished community service, including to the law and legal profession in South Australia

A statue of Sir Samuel Way reflects his towering presence in legal, political and cultural circles in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

The bronze figure of Sir Walter Watson Hughes by Francis Williamson stands on a massive block of red granite.

A startled Venus caused consternation as Adelaide’s first public statue in 1892

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