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

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

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

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

North Terrace east is Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard

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

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.

Simple stone stands as a reminder of a painful past history. 

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

Remembering the role of horses in war.

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.