List of public art in Brisbane

This is a list of public art on permanent public display in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

The list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space; it does not include artwork on display inside museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals and mosaics.

This list does not include military and war memorials.

List of sculptures edit

Name Image Location Artist Year Ref
Lion   King George Square E.F. Kohler, R. Summerhayes and E.S. Taylor 1938
The Banker   Post Office Square Leonard Shillam 1970
Forme del Mito: Forms of Myth   Edward Street/Turbot Street Arnaldo Pomodoro 1983
Pelicans   Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank Leonard and Kathleen Shillam 1984
Offshoot   South Bank Clement Meadmore 1984
Pelicans   Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank Leonard and Kathleen Shillam 1984
Sisters   Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank Ante Dabro 1985
Approaching Equilibrium   Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank Anthony Pryor 1985
Leviathan Play   South Bank Ron Robertson-Swann 1985
Continuous Division   Roma Street Parkland Greg Johns 1988
Plant Form   City Botanic Gardens, Gardens Point Robert Juniper 1988
Morning Star   City Botanic Gardens, Gardens Point Jon Barlow Hudson 1988
Gates of Heaven   King Edward Park Wendy Mills 1988
Elephant   South Bank Parklands 1988
Gestation   Queen Street Baile Oakes 1988
The Man & Matter Series   Kangaroo Point Park Peter D Cole 1992
Anchorage and Passage   Brisbane International Terminal, Brisbane Airport Ben Trupperbaumer 1995
Crossover Guardians   Kangaroo Point Park Mona Ryder 1995
Geerbaughs Midden (Section B)   Kangaroo Point Park Ron Hurley 1995
Beacon   Esplanade, Shorncliffe Marion Hoad 1996
Bowline   Queen Street Simon Perry 1996
Net   William Street, Neville Bonner Building Barbara Heath 1998
City Roos   George Street Christopher Trotter 1998/99
City Roos   George Street Christopher Trotter 1998/99
Pride   Charlotte Street/Albert Street Grant Lehmann 1999
A tree a rock a cloud   Eagle Street Barbara Heath 1999
The Courier   Charlotte Street John Coleman 1999
Sundial   Centenary Place 1999
Emporium   Ann Street 2000s
Fish   Chinatown, Brisbane 2000s
Hands   Eagle Street Sebastian Di Mauro 2003
Guardian   Kangaroo Point John Dahlsen 2003
The Passenger   Queen Street Cezary Stulgis 2003
Confluence   George Street Daniel Templeman 2004
Drift   Charlotte Street Sebastian Di Mauro 2004
Felix   Mary Street, Brisbane Terry Summers [1] 2004
Dialogue   Queen Street Cezary Stulgis 2004
The Witness Box   South Bank Daniel Templeman 2004
Echoes from the North   Edward Street Augustine Dall'Ava 2004-5
Steam - 15 geodesic spheres   George Street Donna Marcus 2006
Industrial Growth   Boundary Road, Richlands Christopher Trotter 2007
Billow   Esplanade, Shorncliffe Davis -Thomas 2007
Surge   Esplanade, Shorncliffe Davis -Thomas 2007
The Guardian   Wharf Street Cezary Stulgis 2008
Kernel (Falling from Above)   275 George Street Stuart Green 2009
Wormholes (Section C)   Kangaroo Point Park Alexander Knox 2009
Pod   Northshore Hamilton, Queensland 2010s
Venus Rising   Kangaroo Point Park, Main Street Wolfgang Buttress 2011
Eyes Are Singing Out   415 George Street Yayoi Kusama 2012
The World Turns   Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, South Bank Michael Parekowhai 2012
Preservation   Kangaroo Point Park Mel Robson 2013 [1][2]
Confluenza   Roma Street Parkland Salvatore Di Mauro and Sebastian Di Mauro 2013
Gloria   Teneriffe Mark Andrews 2013 [2]
Feast of the Bon-yi 1   Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha Bianca Beetson 2013
Feast of the Bon-yi 2   Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha Bianca Beetson 2013
Poinsettia Riverfire   Emma Miller Place, Brisbane CBD Luke Roberts 2016
The Bull   Edward Street
Big Sister   Eagle Street John Seward Johnson II
Mirage   Brisbane Arcade, Queen Street Mall Gidon Graetz
Pelicans   on the old bridge foundations in the Brisbane River, Brisbane CBD Christopher Trotter
Kangaroo   City Botanic Gardens, Gardens Point
Garden Sculpture   Brisbane Airport
Cicada   South Bank
  Boundary St, Melbourne St and Mollison St intersection West End
Platypus   Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Fig Tree Pocket

List of statues edit

Name Image Location Artist Year
Queen Victoria   Queens Gardens Thomas Brock 1906
Robert Burns   Centenary Place 1929
George V   King George Square E.F Kohler, R Summerhayes and E.S.Taylor 1938
Petrie Tableau   King George Square Stephen Walker (sculptor) 1988
The Drovers   Ann Street (World Expo 88) 1988 (original)/ 2005 (recast)
Speakers corner   King George Square Artbusters 1993
Hippocrates   Herston Phillip Piperides 1996
Child Abuse Memorial   Emma Miller Place Gavan Fenelon 2004
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky   Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium Sergei Bychkov 2007
Lady Diamantina Bowen   Gardens Point Phillip Piperides 2009
El Emigrante   Cathedral Square (World Lebanese Cultural Union) 2010
Confucius   South Bank Parklands (Ji'nan Municipal Government, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China) 2010
Themis   Courts of Law, George Street 2012
Aurora   Queen Street Cezary Stulgis 2015
Thomas Joseph Byrnes   Centenary Place
Thomas Joseph Ryan   Queens Gardens Edgar Bertram Mackennal

List of monuments and memorials edit

Name Image Location Artist Year
Mooney Memorial Fountain (Firemen Memorial)   Queen Street William Webster, sculptor 1879
First Free Settlers Monument 1838   Nundah 1938
Tide Recorder   Newstead Park, Newstead 1959
John Oxley Landing Memorial   Newstead Park, Newstead 1983
Resilience   Emma Miller Place Cida de Aragon and Steffen Lehmann 2007
Q150 time capsule   Gardens Point 2009
Speakers' Corner   George Street 2010
Ken Fletcher Memorial   Tennyson 2013
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial   Brisbane Airport
Gateway to Victory   Hamilton

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Kangaroo Point Natural History Project". Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  2. ^ "MEL ROBSON - C.T. WHITE PARK KANGAROO POINT". National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2016.

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