If you haven’t yet seen the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre, then mark in your diary either Easter Saturday, 19 April, or the following Saturday 26 April.
Or, take virtual 3D tour at any time!
Despite a promise of “extensive consultation” the State Government is still with-holding most of its plans for the North Adelaide golf course in the urban forested Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands).
You can urge the Premier to identify every one of the 585 mature trees that he admits he wants to destroy.
Dear Premier, why won’t you call me by my name? If you are going to chop down my trees, why won’t you look me in the forest and tell me straight? Yours sincerely, Pirltawardli ….
It’s holiday time - so time to explore your Park Lands, especially the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of a dozen dates over the next few weeks.
More than 300 trees have been felled, so far, to make room for a three billion dollar hospital on your Park Lands, but much more tree destruction is on the way.
The City of Adelaide has taken up our idea of a mapped resource identifying and given you information about most of the tens of thousands of trees that it looks after in your Park Lands.
Zoom in, or search the trees in your Park Lands, find out what's growing, report any tree damage or ill-health, and even write a love letter to any tree!
Celebrated artist Margaret Ambridge has carried off the $20,000 first prize in the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, for her charcoal and ink drawing: “Bush for Life” .
Invited sponsors and donors mingled with the artists and their guests, at the Festival Centre on 1 April, as 11 prizes were awarded at the opening of the biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
Hundreds of survey respondents have identified the State Government as the biggest threat to your Adelaide Park Lands.
The 2025 Park Lands Survey results, from both supporters and the general public, will be used to plan our next initiatives, as we Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore in your Open, Green, Public Park Lands.