In 1976, Owen Broughton's Untitled sculpture won the Rundle Mall Sculpture Contest. Other competition winners that year included John Dowie's Girl On A Slide and Bert Flugelman's Spheres (known affectionately by South Australians as the 'Malls…

From 1872-1883, Mary lived at Kensington and established a school in that suburb. In 1883, Bishop Reynolds banished her from Adelaide and she moved to Sydney. She spent time in Victoria and New Zealand establishing the Order’s presence there, and…

This playful sculpture depicts the heroine of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Characters from both books, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Duchess and the Gryphon,…

Venere di Canova, or Venus as she is known, was the first public artwork to be erected in the city. It is a direct copy of a work by the 18th-century Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. (The title Venere di Canova means “Canova’s Venus”). The statue is…

Roy Rene was a great Australian vaudeville performer and radio broadcaster. Born Henry van der Sluys in 1891, he grew up in Adelaide in a family of nine. His Jewish Dutch migrant father worked as a cigar maker on Hindley Street. Rene won a singing…

This garden and its sculpture form a meaningful and peaceful art installation. The Pioneer Women’s Memorial Trust was set up in 1935. It was given this space behind Government House for a site to honour South Australian women pioneers. The garden is…