Recalling the ancient Ichthyosaur, this sculpture invites interaction

14 Pieces is a sculpture fountain based on the opalised fossilised vertebrae of the Ichthyosaur in the South Australian Museum.

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

This festival is widely recognised as one of the great international arts festivals, while its accompanying Writers’ Week is the largest literary event of its kind.

A plaque to the 'City Gardener' is now obscured in a city garden

This fountain is a memorial to William Faulding Scammell, AO, CBE who was Chancellor of Adelaide University from 1991 to 1998.

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

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

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

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

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

This Owen Broughton work won the 1976 Rundle Mall sculpture contest alongside Bert Flugelman's Mall's Balls and John Dowie's Girl on a Slide. 

'Popeye the Sailor' was a popular cartoon at the cinema in the 1930s when Gordon Watts introduced a tourist pleasure craft on the River Torrens

The red granite sculpture captures the plaster imprints of 64 handshakes made at a Reconciliation Week ceremony in 2006. 

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

The Rundle Lantern is 100% green-powered and the light show is carbon neutral.

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

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).

The first female local government councillor in Australia, Benny was a Justice of the Peace, a businesswoman and a lobbyist for women’s equality.

Once dubbed 'Adelaide's most active statue' the Athlete is now safely installed in the Lord Mayor's Courtyard. 

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

The Immigrants sculpture has been climbed on, sat on, stood next to and embraced by many people who have walked through the gates of the Migration Museum since 2006.

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

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

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