The Minister for Housing & Urban Development commissionned this work by Karen Genoff, an Adelaide local.

Dame Roma Mitchell is depicted surrounded by her books looking relaxed and at home on North Terrace.

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

Within Catherine Truman’s work, Fish for the Slate Pool Walkway, the tentative nature of life is captured brilliantly from the depths of Truman’s imagination.

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

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

Affectionately known as the ‘Bonython bath’, this fountain stood outside the South Australian Museum from 1965 to 2005

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

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

‘Construction’, ‘Thought’ and ‘Optimism’ make up the three elements of this bronze sculpture by Victor Meertens. 

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 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

The mounted trooper reining in his horse commemorates South Australians who served in the South African War (1899-1902).

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

Architect Louis Laybourne-Smith and sculptor George Rayner Hoff created a memorial that conveys the impact of the First World War

South Australia became the first state in Australia to build a memorial for the First World War.

At the time of its installation in 1995, Yerrakartarta was the largest public commission of Aboriginal artwork in Australia.