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 Lion King George Square E.F. Kohler, R. Summerhayes and E.S. Taylor 1938The Banker Post Office Square Leonard Shillam 1970Forme del Mito: Forms of Myth Edward Street/Turbot Street Arnaldo Pomodoro 1983Pelicans Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank Leonard and Kathleen Shillam 1984Offshoot South Bank Clement Meadmore 1984Pelicans Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank Leonard and Kathleen Shillam 1984Sisters Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank Ante Dabro 1985Approaching Equilibrium Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank Anthony Pryor 1985Leviathan Play South Bank Ron Robertson-Swann 1985Continuous Division Roma Street Parkland Greg Johns 1988Plant Form City Botanic Gardens, Gardens Point Robert Juniper 1988Morning Star City Botanic Gardens, Gardens Point Jon Barlow Hudson 1988Gates of Heaven King Edward Park Wendy Mills 1988 Elephant South Bank Parklands 1988Gestation Queen Street Baile Oakes 1988The Man & Matter Series Kangaroo Point Park Peter D Cole 1992Anchorage and Passage Brisbane International Terminal, Brisbane Airport Ben Trupperbaumer 1995Crossover Guardians Kangaroo Point Park Mona Ryder 1995Geerbaughs Midden (Section B) Kangaroo Point Park Ron Hurley 1995Beacon Esplanade, Shorncliffe Marion Hoad 1996Bowline Queen Street Simon Perry 1996Net William Street, Neville Bonner Building Barbara Heath 1998City Roos George Street Christopher Trotter 1998/99City Roos George Street Christopher Trotter 1998/99Pride Charlotte Street/Albert Street Grant Lehmann 1999 A tree a rock a cloud Eagle Street Barbara Heath 1999 The Courier Charlotte Street John Coleman 1999Sundial Centenary Place 1999Emporium Ann Street 2000sFish Chinatown, Brisbane 2000sHands Eagle Street Sebastian Di Mauro 2003GuardianKangaroo PointJohn Dahlsen2003The Passenger Queen Street Cezary Stulgis 2003 Confluence George Street Daniel Templeman 2004Drift Charlotte Street Sebastian Di Mauro 2004 Felix Mary Street, Brisbane Terry Summers 2004Dialogue Queen Street Cezary Stulgis 2004The Witness Box South Bank Daniel Templeman 2004Echoes from the North Edward Street Augustine Dall'Ava 2004-5Steam – 15 geodesic spheres George Street Donna Marcus 2006Industrial Growth Boundary Road, Richlands Christopher Trotter 2007Billow Esplanade, Shorncliffe Davis Thomas 2007Surge Esplanade, Shorncliffe Davis Thomas 2007The Guardian Wharf Street Cezary Stulgis 2008Kernel (Falling from Above) 275 George Street Stuart Green 2009Wormholes (Section C) Kangaroo Point Park Alexander Knox 2009Pod Northshore Hamilton, Queensland 2010sVenus Rising Kangaroo Point Park, Main Street Wolfgang Buttress 2011 Eyes Are Singing Out 415 George Street Yayoi Kusama 2012The World Turns Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, South Bank Michael Parekowhai 2012Preservation Kangaroo Point Park Mel Robson 2013 Confluenza Roma Street Parkland Salvatore Di Mauro and Sebastian Di Mauro 2013Gloria Teneriffe Mark Andrews 2013Feast of the Bon-yi 1 Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha Bianca Beetson 2013Feast of the Bon-yi 2 Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha Bianca Beetson 2013Poinsettia Riverfire Emma Miller Place, Brisbane CBD Luke Roberts 2016The 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 Being Swallowed by the Milky Way Queen's Wharf, Brisbane Lindy Lee2024
List of statues Name Image Location Artist Year Queen Victoria Queens Gardens Thomas Brock 1906Robert Burns Centenary Place 1929George V King George Square E.F Kohler, R Summerhayes and E.S.Taylor 1938Petrie Tableau King George Square Stephen Walker (sculptor) 1988The Drovers Ann Street (World Expo 88) 1988 (original)/ 2005 (recast)Speakers corner King George Square Artbusters 1993Hippocrates Herston Phillip Piperides 1996Child Abuse Memorial Emma Miller Place Gavan Fenelon 2004Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium Sergei Bychkov 2007Lady Diamantina Bowen Gardens Point Phillip Piperides 2009El Emigrante Cathedral Square (World Lebanese Cultural Union) 2010Confucius South Bank Parklands (Ji'nan Municipal Government, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China) 2010Themis Courts of Law, George Street 2012Aurora Queen Street Cezary Stulgis 2015Thomas Joseph Byrnes Centenary Place Thomas Joseph Ryan Queens Gardens Edgar Bertram Mackennal
List of monuments and memorials Name Image Location Artist Year Mooney Memorial Fountain (Firemen Memorial) Queen Street William Webster, sculptor 1879First Free Settlers Monument 1838 Nundah 1938Tide Recorder Newstead Park, Newstead 1959 John Oxley Landing Memorial Newstead Park, Newstead 1983ResilienceEmma Miller PlaceCida de Aragon and Steffen Lehmann2007Q150 time capsule Gardens Point 2009Speakers' Corner George Street 2010Ken Fletcher Memorial Tennyson 2013Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial Brisbane Airport Gateway to Victory Hamilton
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
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