Public art collection
Learn more about Brisbane City Council extensive public art collection, including location, materials and type. Artworks range frome large-scale, contemporary sculpture to landscape and streetscape elements.
Brisbane City Council has an extensive public art collection of approximately 200 permanent artworks represented in 500 diverse components created by local, national and internationally renowned artists.
The public art collection is diverse in artforms ranging from large-scale, contemporary sculpture to landscape and streetscape elements integrated throughout the city and surrounding suburbs.
Council also supports a dynamic program of temporary public art exhibitions, projections, events and walking tours.
Explore and enjoy the artworks Brisbane has to offer in these locations.
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- All (181 options)
- Abigail Allwood
- Acacia Ridge Fossil
- Adelaide St Animals
- Alderley Fossil
- Aluminus Floribundus
- Amphibian Heart
- Apparatus for Germination of Achaemienis Ambulatii (Pony Plant)
- Apparatus for Transtemporal Praedicto of Prodigium Futurum
- Aquatic Botanica
- Art Signs
- Baby mammal suite
- Ballustrade
- Beacon
- Big Red (Red Kangaroo)
- Billow
- Bird Poles
- Birds
- Boy
- Boy & Girl
- Bronze Motifs
- Bronze Plaque & Milk Crate
- Building Blocks of Life
- Bulka Booangun - Calling the Dolphins
- Calls from the canopy
- Cell
- Circle of Life
- City Roos
- Cloudland Memorial Arch
- Convolvo
- Cormorants
- Cr Clem Jones
- Crazy Chook Machine
- Crossover Guardians
- Crows Ash Pods
- Cultural Plaques
- Dragon
- Duet
- Ebb & Flow
- Echo Orbit
- Echoes from the North
- EE McCormick Place Fountain
- Epificus
- Falling Tide - Kung Dhu'marami
- Family Attitude
- Feast of the Bon-yi
- Fish Fossil
- Five Fiddling Foxes (bats)
- Five Steps to Freedom
- Flow
- Flying Cockatoo Weather Vane
- Forage
- Forest Jewels
- Forever Free
- Forme del Mito
- Freshwater Eel Seat
- Freshwater Lens
- Frew Park Figures
- Funky Fungi
- Gargantuans of the Forest Floor
- Gates of Heaven
- Gestation
- Goanna - West End
- Gone to Seed
- Graceville Wunderkammer No. 1 - No. 2
- Growth
- Hurry Up Mum
- Hybrid
- Images of Brisbane
- Industrial Growth
- Inhabitants of Alderley
- Inukshuk
- Jemmy Morrill and the Brolgas
- Juxtaposition I
- Kangaroo
- King George V Memorial
- King George V Memorial - Lions
- Knock knock, who's there
- Knot Series
- Koala Mother and Baby
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- Kuta Picnic
- Large Arcs
- Leaf and Berry Hop
- Lighter -than-Air Concrete
- Little Treasures, Northshore Playscape
- Lounge Around
- Man & Matter
- Mannequin
- Memorial to Eddie Gilbert
- Memories of Wind
- Monarchus Metallofernii
- Monty
- Mooney Memorial Fountain
- Moreton Courier
- Morning Glory
- Morning Star II
- Mt Coot-tha Framed
- Native Still Life
- Native Stingless Bee
- Nature's Force Sculptures
- No Small Thing
- Nodes
- Nurri Millen Totems
- Open door
- Pair of Ceramic Frogs
- Pandas 'JJ' and 'Zhu'
- Pelican in the Park
- Pelicans
- Petrie Tableau
- Place of the land tortoise
- Plant Form
- Platypus love seat
- PoinsettiaRiverfire
- Pop!
- Preservation
- Pride
- Primordial Trees
- Progress of Civilization
- Rapture
- Re-wild
- Red Sticks
- Remainders
- Reverie I
- Rhythm of Love
- Ride with Me
- Robert Burns Memorial
- Roots
- Rosella and Eucalyptus Leaves
- Rosie-Lee
- Sandcastle Competition
- Sculptural Fossil Markers
- Sea Pitcher
- Showdown
- Signed Signs
- Sir William Glasgow
- Slip Knot
- Small ships, big ocean
- Speakers Corner
- Spinning Top
- sssSSSsss
- Steam Machine
- Still life with Landscape
- Stolen Generation Memorial Plaque
- Stones Corner: Any person who has organised their life, their work and themself if a genuine artist.
- Stream Life 'The Mayfly'
- Subtropical Treasure
- Suburban Wilderness Trail - Beasties of Alderley
- Sundial - Centenary Place
- Sundial - Hibiscus Garden
- Sunflower Mobile
- Sunset Strip
- Surge
- The Bronze Canoe
- The Elements
- The Guardian
- The Human Factor Series - Be Prepared
- The Human Factor Series - The Botanists
- The Human Factor Series - The Dancers
- The Human Factor Series - The Drover and His Mate
- The Human Factor Series - The Juggler
- The Human Factor Series - The Skater
- The Human Factor Series - The Trapeze Artist
- The King and the Creek Cray
- The magic lies in the spaces between
- The Optogemel
- The Rock
- Think Bigger
- Thomas Joseph Byrnes
- Tidal Indicator
- Tracks
- Tree
- U.F.O. Unidentified Flowering Organism
- Undercurrent
- Untitled (croc)
- Venus Rising: Out of the Water into the Light
- Walter Hill Fountain
- Watermark
- Whale Tails
- What Lies Beneath
- You are my sunshine
- Zoom! Zap! and Blat!
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Materials
- All (47 options)
- Aluminium and automative spray paint
- aluminium
- aluminium, brass, ceramic, copper
- aluminium, paint
- aluminium, paint, lightbox
- aluminium, stainless steel
- aluminium, synthetic polymer
- brass
- brass, organics
- bronze
- bronze and automotive paint
- bronze, native Ficus
- bronze, sandstone
- cast aluminium
- cast concrete
- cement
- ceramic
- ceramic, cement
- concrete
- concrete, aluminium
- concrete, mosaic
- concrete, paint
- copper, bronze, stainless steel, lighting
- copper, glass
- epoxy resin, slate powder, fibreglass and steel
- fibreglass
- found metals
- found metals, concrete
- found metals, granite
- granite
- marble
- neon
- paint
- sandstone
- stainless steel
- stainless steel, bronze, copper
- stainless steel, concrete, aluminium
- stainless steel, perspex, resin, pressed aluminium, buttons, glass beads, LEDs, custom code and electronics
- steel
- steel, aluminium, lighting
- steel, glass, lighting
- steel, recycled highway barriers
- stone
- timber
- timber, metal
- wood
- wood, steel
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Suburb
- All (44 options)
- Acacia Ridge
- Alderley
- Ashgrove
- Banyo
- Boondall
- Bowen Hills
- Brisbane City
- Bulimba
- Camp Hill
- Cannon Hill
- Coorparoo
- Corinda
- Darra
- Fortitude Valley
- Geebung
- Graceville
- Grange
- Greenslopes
- Hamilton
- Hawthorne
- Kangaroo Point
- Kenmore
- Milton
- Mitchelton
- Moorooka
- Mount Coot-tha
- Mount Gravatt
- Mount Gravatt East
- Murarrie
- New Farm
- Newstead
- Nundah
- Oxley
- Paddington
- Sandgate
- Seventeen Mile Rocks
- Shorncliffe
- South Brisbane
- Spring Hill
- St Lucia
- Stones Corner
- Teneriffe
- Woolloongabba
- Wynnum
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184
Total pieces of art
47
Number of materials used
110
Artwork locations
125
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Data source: Brisbane City Council open data, Public Art Collection, Sourced 13 April 2025 under CC BY 4.0, Link to the data source