Interstate visitors flock to Art Gallery of South Australia's J.M.W. Turner exhibition Turner exhibition visitors Nick Elliott, his son Django and Jenny Silver from Port Lincoln. A QUARTER of all visitors to the Art Gallery of South Australia's Turner from the Tate exhibition during its first month came from interstate, with another 9.6 per cent from overseas. "Our data says up to 60 per cent of those people have come specifically to Adelaide to see Turner," Art Gallery director Nick Mitzevich said yesterday. That's a very significant development for us. Our interstate campaigns have really penetrated. It points to where our future might be - that the Gallery is a very credible avenue for cultural tourism. More than 15,000 people attended the exhibition of paintings by J.M.W. Turner, on loan from the Tate Britain in London, during its first four weeks. These included visitors from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Portugal and Russia, as well as the UK and US. The Art Gallery is also gathering data on the postcodes of South Australian visitors to the exhibition, which runs until May 19. To date, the largest attendances have come from city residents (8 per cent), Burnside, Unley/Hyde Park and Norwood/Kent Town (about 3 per cent each), Walkerville/Medindie (2.5 per cent) and North Adelaide and Mitcham (2.4 per cent). Many other eastern and beachside suburbs, including Dulwich, Kensington, Glenelg and Grange, averaged about 2 per cent of the SA attendances, while outlying northern, western and southern suburbs were mostly under 0.5 per cent. "It's typical of what we'd expect," Mr Mitzevich said. What that data isn't showing is that there is a great influx of first-time visitors and also younger visitors ... particularly young families. I think that's really driven by our public programs and the dimension of our hands-on activities, which are free. Jenny Silver, 40, her partner Nick Elliott, 47, and his son Django, 10, came from Port Lincoln to view the exhibition. "Django loves painting so we thought while we were here we'd show him something we wouldn't be able to see in Port Lincoln," Ms Silver said. We've come for Womadelaide ... we were here a few weeks ago but Turner wasn't open, so we thought we'd definitely squeeze in as much as possible. It's an amazing exhibition. Turner's skies - that's what I wanted to see in real life.