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Step behind the lens and into the wild to see jaw-dropping images that capture nature at its most dramatic, beautiful and raw.
Returning to Adelaide Botanic Garden this spring and summer, the world-celebrated Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is on tour from the Natural History Museum in London, with its 61st collection of extraordinary images.
Nestled inside the lush green setting of the Bicentennial Conservatory, the exhibition features exceptional photographs that capture fascinating animal behaviour, spectacular species and the breathtaking diversity of the natural world.
Using photography's unique emotive power to engage and inspire audiences, the images shine a light on stories and species around the world and encourage a future of advocating for the planet.
Combine the exhibition experience with a stroll around the beautiful garden for a fantastic nature-filled day out.
Step into a world of spooky fun, immersive experiences and Halloween magic at the 3rd Annual Festival of Halloween.
Returning bigger than ever in 2026, the Festival of Halloween is a unique celebration of all things Halloween, bringing together local artists, makers, performers and the community for a weekend of frightful fun and creativity.
This year features two separate ticketed events across one unforgettable Halloween weekend.
Saturday 24 October – Festival of Halloween After Dark (16+)
Experience a spookier side of Halloween with an evening dedicated to grown-up ghouls and lovers of all things strange and unusual. Explore a curated marketplace featuring spooky, gothic, horror and alternative creators, immersive themed displays, interactive photo opportunities, roaming characters and atmospheric Halloween entertainment.
Sunday 25 October – Festival of Halloween Family Day
A family-friendly celebration packed with Halloween fun for all ages. Wander through the Halloween marketplace, follow the trick-or-treat trail, meet roaming characters, enjoy interactive photo opportunities and take part in children's craft activities, DIY experiences and pumpkin carving demonstrations.
Whether you're a dedicated Halloween enthusiast, a lover of the unusual or simply looking for a memorable day out, the Festival of Halloween offers a unique experience unlike anything else in South Australia.
One-Off Pottery Session, Ages 8 to 99.
This two and half-hour social clay session is full of fun, laughter, and positivity. You're encouraged to fully embrace the process and allow it to heal your mind and soul. They will walk you through simple yet creative steps to create your own ceramic piece. They will process your work for you after the workshop to make it food-safe and waterproof.
Perfect bonding time for families, friends, and couples.
No Experience is needed.
'$afety Deposit Box' by Good New$ Bank (Cassie Thring and Nicholas Hanisch), is a playful, layered installation created for the Bentham Street Gallery.
Riffing on the Bentham Street Gallery as literal safety deposit boxes, Good New$ Bank uses familiar signifiers of wealth—fat stacks of cash, diamond rings—a dose of humour, in‑jokes and hidden symbols to ask "What does our community value?" These artworks highlight the tension between outward displays of wealth and the poignancy of sentimental, treasured objects.
Visitors are encouraged to scan the QR code by the galleries to contribute to the growing Good New$ database, a participatory archive of what people choose to value and why.
Nicholas Hanisch and Cassie Thring's collaborative practice, Good New$ Bank, is a hopeful resistance to cynicism: bored with widespread nihilism, they imagine communities where good news is valued above all. Their work explores how society measures success and wealth and proposes an alternative through art.
Presented by the City of Adelaide in collaboration with Good New$ Bank, Exhibition Studios and Karl Meyer.
As part of the development for a new film project, acclaimed director Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to you Leo Grande, Jimpa) is exploring the work of local scientists and underwater cinematographers who are recording the impacts of the algal bloom on the South Australian coastline and working to build new oyster reefs that will support the recovery of affected areas.
Part of this research is testing ways of presenting the underwater experience visually and aurally, helping audiences connect with the beauty, complexity and devastation beneath the surface.
Working alongside the Great Southern Reef Foundation, marine restoration scientist Dr Dominic McAfee (Adelaide University) and other artists, Sophie will use her time in the pod to explore how to show the destruction and regeneration in the context of a cinematic work. She will also further interrogate how her fictional characters and story will develop alongside the real-world elements.
Part of Nature Festival 2026
Taste Gouger Street Month 2026 is a month-long celebration of Gouger Street's vibrant and diverse food and dining culture, taking place throughout October 2026.
Organised by Gouger Street Traders Association Inc. (GSTA) in collaboration with the City of Adelaide, the campaign aims to showcase the precinct's unique culinary offerings, attract more visitors, and support local hospitality businesses.
Throughout the month, participating restaurants, cafés, and food businesses will offer exclusive dining specials, showcase their signature dishes, and take part in promotional activities, including social media competitions and meal voucher giveaways.
The campaign will be promoted through GSTA's and the City of Adelaide's social media platforms and other marketing channels, encouraging locals and visitors to discover new flavours, explore diverse cuisines, and experience the vibrant dining atmosphere of Gouger Street.
Taste Gouger Street Month 2026 brings together local businesses and the wider community to celebrate Adelaide's iconic dining precinct while supporting local traders and strengthening Gouger Street's reputation as a leading food and cultural destination.
Beerenberg Farm in Hahndorf, Adelaide Hills, offers a charming High Tea experience that invites guests to slow down, celebrate and savour the flavours of the countryside. Perfect for visitors exploring the region, special occasions, birthdays, catch-ups or simply an indulgent day out, this thoughtfully curated experience combines country hospitality with handcrafted sweet and savoury delights.
Set on the Beerenberg family farm, guests are welcomed with a local glass of sparkling wine before enjoying an elegant High Tea featuring creations made with the brand's iconic jams, relishes and condiments. Highlights include house-made gourmet sausage rolls, strawberry tarts filled with Beerenberg Strawberry Jam and the much-loved mini heart-shaped scones served with T-Bar tea or barista-made coffee. Every element celebrates the flavours and traditions that have been part of the Beerenberg family for generations, creating an experience that is distinctly Adelaide Hills.
Located in the heart of Hahndorf, Australia's oldest surviving German settlement, Beerenberg Farm is surrounded by boutique shops, galleries, cellar doors and scenic Adelaide Hills attractions, making it an ideal addition to a day of exploring. Whether marking a milestone or simply treating someone special, Beerenberg High Tea offers a memorable taste of country life worth discovering.
'Tools for Quiet Activism' explores grassroots ecological restoration, drawing inspiration from the work of scientist-led organisation Bio·R in regenerating heavily-cleared native habitats. Through small, repeated acts of repair on degraded land, a form of 'quiet activism' emerges.
Artist Stephanie Doddridge embodies this gentle resistance in her 'toolkit' for ecological restoration. Seed orchard plans, stitched plant identification lists, and poetic tools crafted from experimental bioplastics embedded with native seeds, become metaphors for the process of regeneration.Please see exhibition opening hours here.
Power Surge – Into the Grid features prototype lighting designs created by JamFactory Studio Associates working across glass, metal, timber and ceramics. The prototypes were developed as part of JamFactory's annual product design challenge 'Design a Thing', led throughout 2026 by JamFactory's Creative Directors.
As part of their training, Associates accepted the challenge to develop a functional light fixture or lamp which incorporated a metre long LED strip into a product design suitable for the marketplace.
Within the limits of time, skill, material cost and pliability, Associates have created a body of work which highlights the role of playfulness, experimentation and innovation in the process of product design and production. The works displayed delight in their functionality, their assertiveness, their whimsy and technical mastery. Each creation reveals the a unique design signature through each Associates carefully considered aesthetics and skilled material manufacture, as evident here with ceramics delicately pressed with linen to give texture and warmth, glowing faceted timber, blown glass forms, cold worked and made gestural with light, finely detailed brass paired with paper screen, and a running metal ribbon as scaled-up jewellery for the wall.
An exhibition of creative works by South Australian designer, artist and researcher Guy Keulemans in collaboration with leading Australian designers. This is the third iteration in the biennial series of solo exhibitions presented by JamFactory in partnership with Adelaide University to highlight the artistic achievements and knowledge of key members of the creative faculty.
For many, the material world has never been more abundant, while planetary existence has never been more perilous. In the face of an interconnected crisis – waste, pollution, climate change and the unease of accelerating production and consumption – Keulemans and his collaborators ask, what is the role for design and craft? What is it that should be made, or remade? The works in this exhibition attempt to bring into the senses new aspirations for the manufactured world. Themes of transformative repair, localism and collaboration explore the agency in studio practice. The collaborations are signified by the X in the title; a symbol of a multiplying force for the consensus required to change material culture.
Presented as part of Adelaide Design Week
Presented in partnership with Adelaide University
Turrangka…in the shadows surveys over a decade of James Tylor's practice and brings together the most comprehensive selection of his unique daguerreotypes, expansive digital photographic series, hand-made Kaurna cultural objects and furniture.
The exhibition title is drawn from a Kaurna word, highlighting a significant ongoing aspect of Tylor's practice: the learning and sharing of his Indigenous language. As well as shadow, turra also translates to reflection, image and mirror.
At the core of Tylor's practice is a continuously innovative program of photographic intervention, disrupting the image to redact or highlight visual information. He systematically alters the reading of Country by excising information from the photographic print or inscribing language and place-names onto the surface of his daguerreotypes.
These photographs provide a glimpse into Tylor's broader practice of recreating Kaurna cultural artefacts, architecture and ephemera. Antiquated analogue photographic processes including Becquerel daguerreotypes and hand-tinting are also used to generate a new archive of pseudo-historical images. Tylor's recreations point to the absence of these images from the hegemonic depiction of colonial Australia's visual history.
A UNSW Galleries, Sydney exhibition, presented in partnership with Art Gallery of South Australia. Presented during SALA Festival.
Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition traces a ground-breaking era in art history through iconic works by the most influential European and American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Exclusive to the Art Gallery of South Australia, experience fifty-seven masterworks from the Toledo Museum of Art's world-renowned collection, as Monet to Matisse tells the story of artists defying tradition and transforming modern art, from Impressionism to Cubism and Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism.
Featured artists include Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Helen Frankenthaler, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh and James McNeill Whistler. Select works from AGSA's own collection enrich and complement the exhibition experience.
AGSA's Winter Art Series is a major new initiative that brings major international exhibitions exclusively to Adelaide during the winter seasons between 2026 and 2029.
Image: detail Claude Monet, born Giverny, France, 1840, died France, Giverny 1926, Water Lilies, oil on canvas, 200.7 x 213.4cm; Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, United States of America
