The Rainmakers
Artist: G.R. Shedley, 1965
Material: Bronze
This is the oldest work in the City of Onkaparinga public art collection. In 1965 G R Shedley created The Rainmakers sculpture, the first major public art work in South Australia to represent Indigenous people, three years before the now iconic Three Rivers fountain by John Dowie in Victoria Square which was installed in 1968.
The commission for The Rainmakers was gifted by Eugen Lohmann ESQ, in Remsheid-Lennep, Western Germany and unveiled by the Honourable Frank Walsh, M.P. the then Premier of South Australia.
The work is located on the corner of Gulfview and Galloway Roads in Christies Beach.