Established unilaterally in 1836 by the South Australia

Established unilaterally in 1836 by the South Australia

Established unilaterally in 1836 by the South Australia Company on the place known to its traditional owners as Tandanya, the City of Adelaide and its suburbs is, today, an expansive urban ‘space’ that has incorporated, subsumed, and sometimes concealed many different ‘places’ in the course of its short historical development, With reference to the rich visual and archival records of early cultural encounters between Aboriginal Australians and European colonists preserved in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia and the South Australian Museum, and associated literature, discuss this contested ‘spatial history’.