A landmark in Hurtle Square / Tangkaira of your Adelaide Park Lands has been decorated in leaves, flowers, twigs and gumnuts, and twine.
It’s a botanical tribute to the artist who designed the landmark 20 years ago.
Australia loves sport. But should major sporting events come at the expense of our public green spaces? In Brisbane and Adelaide, communities are fighting to protect precious park lands from major developments. Different governments, different projects, but remarkably similar battles.
As the South Australian Government pushes ahead with plans to bring MotoGP to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi, a leading birdwatcher says the State could be overlooking another growing tourism opportunity, one that depends on protecting our natural environment rather than building racetracks through it.
Premier Peter Malinauskas says the election settled whether his Government’s controversial Park Lands projects will proceed. Consultation can change the details, but not the decision. But what happens when some of the most contentious details were never put before voters?
The Premier claims the economic benefits of the MotoGP justify the destruction of the Eastern Park Lands. But international experience suggests World Heritage listing of the Park Lands will generate greater returns.
Senior Adelaide University academics say the SA Government used legislation to bypass normal planning assessment and public scrutiny of the North Adelaide golf course redevelopment.
Read what they found — and why the Adelaide Park Lands Association is calling for cast-iron protection against the future sale, privatisation or permanent alienation of our public Park Lands.
In the lead-up to next month’s opening of the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize exhibition, all finalist-selected artists will be invited to a Town Hall reception with the Lord Mayor, Jane Lomax Smith.
The Lord Mayor’s reception will come just days before the opening of the exhibition at the Festival Centre, when the prize-winners will be announced.
Hundreds of artists, inspired by your Adelaide Park Lands will need to wait for another few weeks, before learning which art works will be selected as finalists in this year’s Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
The chair of our Art Prize Committee Nataliya Dikovskaya is thrilled by the quality of hundreds of entries that have been received from artists across Australia, who are inspired by your Park Lands, and hoping to inspire you.
The second of six Park Lands attacks by the Malinauskas Labor Government is well under way. The last patch of green that was left on the eastern side of Frome Road in your Park 11, has now disappeared.
Artists are using a variety of media as they take inspiration from your Park Lands, and inspire you to Love Your Park Lands. While some prefer photography or other digital forms of art, a new group is finding joy in one of the oldest forms of creating imagery, putting your Park Lands onto paper with simple sketches.
Ecological consultants and arborists have identified the dangers to 457 trees (many of which provide habitat to cockatoos, possums, falcons and other species) from the State Government’s proposed Aquatic Centre attack on your Park 2.
Documents released for purposes of sham “consultation” have signalled the risks which could be avoided if the Government heeded community calls to build on a brownfield site instead.
Photographer Lyndon Stacy recently has been highlighting lesser-known parts of your Park Lands, including the wetland in G.S. Kingston Park / Wirrarninthi (Park 23) and biodiversity carbon offset plantings in Reservoir Park / Kangatilla (Park 4).
This month, we put Lyndon in the hot-seat to learn more about what makes him tick.
Have you got your entry in for the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, yet? (Entries close 31 Jan!) Perhaps painting en plein air (i.e. outdoors) could spark inspiration for you.
France-born Charlotte Pelletier, 26, guides small groups – of all ages and levels – in painting and drawing “in the landscape”, including in your Open Green Public Park Lands.
More and more people are stepping up to urge construction of a new Aquatic Centre on a near-city brownfield site, rather than on your Park Lands.
Two separate campaigns are under way: one to persuade the State Government; the other to persuade the City Council. The aim of both campaigns: PROTECT and RESTORE.