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Illuminate Adelaide: City Lights - Joan Ross (Free)


AGSA is delighted to partner with Illuminate Adelaide to present I give you a mountain by leading artist Joan Ross.

Joan Ross invites you on an animated journey through a cabinet of curiosities in this expansive projection on the façade of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Explore the Leverian Museum, a place that once held animal specimens, antiquities and ethnographic objects sourced on voyages by Captain James Cook. Digitally collaging 18th century watercolour illustrations of the original artefacts by Sarah Stone, I give you a mountain reimagines the impact of colonialism on our planet, charting a dangerous course from a verdant paradise to desert dystopia.

The original video work is also screening in Gallery 1 of the Elder Wing.

Supported by the Art Gallery of South Australia's Contemporary Collectors

Event Details:

  • Dates: 4-20 Jul 2025 - Nightly 5.30-10.30pm (5.30-11pm Fri & Sat)

  • Location: AGSA Gallery

More info here.