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A Splash of Colour – The Dashorst Murals in the Old Royal Adelaide Hospital

Posted on February 24, 2022May 30, 2025

Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means to recovery. Florence Nightingale Do you remember the murals that brightened the walls of the basement corridor of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital? The murals were by South Australian artist Gilbert Dashorst, who is probably best known as the botanical […]

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