List of public art in Brisbane

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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		2004
Pride		Charlotte Street/Albert Street		1999
A tree a rock a cloud			Barbara Heath	1999
Hands				2003
The Bull		Edward Street
Forme del Mito: Forms of Myth		Edward Street/Turbot Street	Arnaldo Pomodoro	1983
Echoes from the North		Edward Street		2004-5
Big Sister			John Seward Johnson II
Confluence		George Street		2004
Steam - 15 geodesic spheres		George Street		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		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	[1]	2004
Pelicans		on the old bridge foundations in the Brisbane River, Brisbane CBD	Christopher Trotter
Bowline		Queen Street	Simon Perry	1996
Dialogue		Queen Street		2004
The Passenger		Queen Street		2003
Gestation		Queen Street		1988
The Guardian				2008
Net		William Street, Neville Bonner Building	Barbara Heath	1998
The Banker		Post Office Square	Leonard Shillam	1970
Sundial				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		, Brisbane CBD	Luke Roberts	2016
Fish		Chinatown, Brisbane		2000s
Gloria		Teneriffe	Mark Andrews	2013	[2]
Pod		Northshore Hamilton, Queensland		2010s
Garden Sculpture		Brisbane Airport
Anchorage and Passage		Brisbane International Terminal, Brisbane Airport		1995
Venus Rising		Kangaroo Point Park, Main Street	Wolfgang Buttress	2011
Crossover Guardians		Kangaroo Point Park		1995
Geerbaughs Midden (Section B)		Kangaroo Point Park		1995
The Man & Matter Series		Kangaroo Point Park		1992
Wormholes (Section C)		Kangaroo Point Park		2009
Preservation		Kangaroo Point Park		2013	[1][2]
Cicada		South Bank
Elephant		South Bank Parklands		1988
Offshoot		South Bank	Clement Meadmore	1984
The Witness Box		South Bank		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		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		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
Aurora		Queen Street		2015
The Drovers		Ann Street	(World Expo 88)	1988 (original)/ 2005 (recast)
El Emigrante			(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
Thomas Joseph Byrnes
Robert Burns				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		2009
Hippocrates		Herston		1996
Child Abuse Memorial				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			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
• Alphie the Alpha Turtle, a large moveable inflatable floating public artwork

References[]

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