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Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Public Art
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Torrens Strait Islander Public Artworks
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The Kaurna people are the Aboriginal
people of the Adelaide Plains whose
country spans from Crystal Brook and
Port Wakefield across the Adelaide
Plains to the southern tip of Cape Jervis.
Mudlangga (the Lefevre Peninsula) and
Yertabulti (Port Adelaide) areas belonged
to the Wirra Kaurna group who would
camp especially along the Port River
during the summer months and then
travel across the Port Adelaide Enfield
area up to the hills during the winter.
As Uncle Lewis O’Brien, a local Elder
says, “the Kaurna’s strong spiritual
attachment to the land is understood
through stories of the ‘dreaming’ which
aren’t just fairy tales; they speak about
our country, our law and our knowledge”.
It is this intangible cultural and spiritual
knowledge that has defined and
determined places of cultural significance;
in the environmental, sensory and cultural
landscapes of the Kaurna people in the
Council region and is reflected in the
Public Art which we are proud to display.
Public Art is a striking way of reclaiming
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people’s ‘spirit of place’ in today’s
urban landscape. The City of Port
Adelaide Enfield is proud to set the
benchmark for its largest metropolitan
collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Public Art and by providing
opportunities for the ongoing connection
to land, stories and culture through a
creative Arts medium.
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