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

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

List of statues

Name	Image	Location	Artist	Year
The Drovers		Ann Street	(World Expo 88)	1988 (original)/ 2005 (recast)
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
Themis		At the former Courts of Law, George Street		2005
Thomas Joseph Byrnes		Centenary Place
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
Speakers corner		King George Square	Artbusters	1993
Queen Victoria		Queens Gardens	Thomas Brock	1906
Thomas Joseph Ryan		Queens Gardens	Edgar Bertram Mackennal
Lady Diamantina Bowen		Gardens Point	Phillip Piperides	2009
Hippocrates		Herston	Phillip Piperides	1996
Child Abuse Memorial		Emma Miller Place	Gavan Fenelon	2004
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky		Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium	Sergei Bychkov	2007

List of monuments and memorials

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

See also

• List of Australian military memorials
• List of public art in the City of Sydney

References

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. Retrieved 22 July 2016.

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