Historically this location belonged to the Neldner family for over 100 years. Now under new custodianship by passionate arts advocates, owners and curators Kirsty Kinglsey and Renee de Saxe, it has been reborn as a place for community connection, creativity and art.
Each visitor is personally welcomed on arrival and introduced to the Wonderground Barossa story and the nine room art gallery of carefully curated art exhibitions. With art on high rotation every seven weeks, visitors to the region and locals alike are encouraged to return to the venue again and again, to be delighted anew by colour, shape and form. The exhibitions promote emerging and established artists, both local and from across Australia driving cultural tourism to the region.
Each exhibition opening attracts 200-300 art lovers, and to date, Kirsty and Renee have held an impressive 22 exhibitions of 900 works featuring 94 exhibiting artists, 85 of whom were women.
Art extends from the walls to the wine bottle; the Mirus labels are made from paper soaked in the soil of the blocks their grapes are grown in.
A terrace overlooks large scale sculptures and landscaped gardens that frame the quintessential South Australian backdrop. A centrepiece artwork called Harvest Hands measures a sizeable 7m x 3m x 4m. By local artist Roland Weight, it is Wonderground’s inaugural investment sculpture, and it was hand cut and built on site by Mark Nacey and Marc Kittle. Evolving from a concept for a produce swapping station, Harvest Hands was intended as a place where people share surplus fruit and vegetables for the benefit of others. The sculptor Roalnd continues to lend a hand through art classes.
Wonderground was recently honoured with the 2026 Best Of Wine Tourism Award for Art and Culture in Adelaide, South Australia. It was commended by the judges for its genuine commitment to pairing art and wine, reflected through its rapid transformation into an important cultural venue for visitors to the region and a fantastic forum for local artists.
Visit Wonderground and the Mirus cellar door: https://www.wondergroundbarossa.com/
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Photos: supplied by Wonderground