Sleeps Hill Tunnel

The award-winning Sleeps Hill Tunnel returns in 2025; an exclusive opportunity to explore a hidden part of Adelaide’s history.

Be immersed in mesmerising projections and installations that share the tunnel’s history from its steam train era to mushroom farm years.

Wander through this 377-metre long tunnel to discover a spectacle of lights and visuals across the tunnel walls that deliver a narrative of time and place, including: 

• Collages of newspaper clippings, archive film and historical artefacts supplied by the History Trust of SA and the State Library of SA
• Soil projection piece ‘The World Beneath our Feet’ by The Barbican
• Forest bathing projections of mushroom time lapse footage by Steve Axford, and Cath Marciniak, with music by Romano Crivici, Carla Thackrah, Jess Ciampa and Mark Atkins
• Fluorescent ‘Glow in the Dark Mushroom World’ by SA artist, Clare Miyuki Guerin
• BRAND NEW ZONE IN 2025 An ‘Infinite’ tunnel of mirrors, projections, light and music by Innovation Partner, Novatech
• ‘Transcendent’ drone footage by SA creative production studio, Watchpost.

Discover Fungi of Adelaide and the Hills HERE. 

Tunnel talks by tunnel owner, Dave, will take place at the 11:30am, 2pm and 6pm performances daily.

The World Beneath Our Feet by Holition with George Monbiot. Originally commissioned by the Barbican for the Our Time on Earth exhibition. Our Time on Earth was conceived and curated by the Barbican with Guest Curators FranklinTill and Co-produced by Musée de la civilisation, Québec City, Canada.

Thank you to Neil Bromhall and the History Trust of South Australia for use of images from the State Photographic Collection, Accession No. GN12252 and GN12250.

Thank you to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia for use of footage from A Steam Train Passes, NFSA title number FAC 119366.

Thank you to the Australian Railway Historical Society Archives for the use of articles 120087, 100130, 136446 & 0567954-0567990.

Visual Story

A visual story has been created for Sleeps Hill Tunnel. This has been designed to help prepare you for your visit, and includes information about the venue and what will happen during the performance.

You can view the visual story HERE: Sleeps Hill Tunnel - Visual Story

Audio Description

An audio description for each installation of Sleeps Hill Tunnel has been created to use during the event. Each installation has been recorded in a seperate audio file to assist you. You can access the audio description HERE: Sleeps Hill Tunnel audio description.

These files can also be downloaded on to your device to be played offline. You will need to click the three horizontal dots next to the volume icon and select Download. We'd like to thank Access2Arts for creating the audio description files.

NOTE: Please do not just rely on the Google Maps search of 'Sleeps Hill Tunnel' as it will take you to the wrong access point. Please ensure you're following directions to Grandview Crescent, Panorama and follow the event signage – see map HERE for reference.