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

Recalling the ancient Ichthyosaur, this sculpture invites interaction

Pigs and people in Rundle Mall

Who, or what, is following Alice in Rymill Park?

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

The powerful sculpture of Catherine Helen Spence in Light Square, Adelaide celebrates the life and work of a formidable South Australian.

A remarkable and feisty South Australian attorney-general and premier, a father of federation and the first Australian Minster for Trade and Customs is commemorated by this statue

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

Different, but a good likeness

One of three statues given to Adelaide by WA Horn, Hercules was unveiled in October 1892 in Victoria Square. 

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

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

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

Adelaide-born Lord Florey won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 for his part in making the infection-fighting penicillin available

‘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

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

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 sculpture of Elder is at the University of Adelaide, a major beneficiary of his philanthropy

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

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

Balancing and still among the bustle of Rundle Mall, Spheres is among Adelaide's favourite public artworks

Word artist Richard Tipping prompts us to consider big ideas in his sculpture ‘The Eternal Question’

What fun! John Dowie’s work invigorates Rundle Mall

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

Adelaide tunnel tales are a perennial favourite in the popular press, and are cheerfully perpetuated by tour operators and publicans everywhere.

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

The lives and cultures of ‘Afghan’ cameleers are recognised in Whitmore Square