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Sir Walter Watson Hughes
Shortly before his death on New Year’s Day, 1887, Walter Watson Hughes wrote to his nephew, ‘I have been a…
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Standing Work No. 3
Johnnie Dady’s cast iron work began as a cardboard approximation of a piano.
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Steam
The steam engine became part of daily life, thanks to its industrial applications, powering modes of transport and agricultural machinery,…
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Survey Chain
Survey chain used by Isaac Guley in surveying the City of Adelaide with Colonel Light.
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Susan Grace Benny Plaque
The first female local government councillor in Australia, Benny was a Justice of the Peace, a businesswoman and a lobbyist for…
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Target Practice
Hossein Valamenesh reworked existing bricks and space in order to create this inlaid piece.
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The Immigrants
The Immigrants sculpture has been climbed on, sat on, stood next to and embraced by many people who have walked…
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The opening of Parliament 1857
Crowds gathered on 22 April 1857 to watch Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell open South Australia’s first fully elected parliament.
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Thomas Quinton Stow
Thomas Quinton Stow was born on 7th July 1801 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, a descendant of an old farming family.…
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Untitled
Many passers-by fail to recognise Donald Judd’s minimalist sculpture as a work of art.
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Vierge à l’offrande (Virgin of the Offering)
This bronze sculpture, titled Virgin of the Offering or Virgin of Alsace, is one of five casts of the work produced…
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Walter Gill
When Walter Gill retired in 1923 after thirty-three years as South Australia’s third Conservator of Forests, he encapsulated his life…
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War Memorial
Architect Louis Laybourne-Smith and sculptor George Rayner Hoff created a memorial that conveys the impact of the First World War
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War Memorial Fountain
South Australia became the first state in Australia to build a memorial for the First World War.
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William Anstey Giles
William Anstey Giles came from pioneering stock. He was born in Adelaide on 29th June 1860, one of the 78…
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William Christie Gosse
Thirty-year-old widower William Christie Gosse was employed at the South Australian Survey Office when he was sent, in 1873, by…
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William Henry Bragg Bust
This bust, sculpted in 2015 by South Australian artist Robert Hannaford, commemorates Professor William Bragg.
