List of public art in Tasmania explained

This is a list of public art on permanent public display in Tasmania, 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.

List

Year	Subject	Image	Artist	Location	Notes	Ref
1865	Fountain and statue of John Franklin			Franklin Square		^[1]
C. 1884			Richard Patterson	St David's Park	One of the lion gate posts at the entrance to St David's Park.	^[2]
1885	Charles Meredith Monument Fountain			Queens Domain		^[3]
1889	Statue of William Crowther		Mario Raggi	Franklin Square		^[4] ^[5]
1902, 1925, and after 1945	Ross War Memorial			Ross	A memorial to Albert Fitzallen and World War I and II	^[6]
1902 and 1904	Launceston Boer War Memorial			City Park, Launceston	South African War MemorialThe stone was laid in 1902, the memorial unveiled in 1904.	^[7]
1913	Anniversary Arch		Amos Vimpany	Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens	Originally, it was created for the entrance of the Australian Mutual Provident Society's building in Elizabeth Street, at the site of NAB House. After the building was demolished, it was donated to the gardens in 1968 to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the gardens.	^[8]
1920				Queenstown	War memorial	^[9] ^[10]
1922	Statue of Edward VII			Franklin Square		^[11] ^[12]
1924	For God and Country			Close to The Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Launceston	Launceston Cenotaph	^[13] ^[14] ^[15]
1924	War memorial Ulverstone			Ulverstone		^[16]
1925	Hobart Cenotaph			Queens Domain	A war memorial	^[17]
1927				Stanley	War memorial	^[18] ^[19]
1935	Alfred B Biggs' Observatory Monument			Royal Park, Launceston	A bronze plaque on a granite plinth	^[20] ^[21]
1948	Albert Ogilvie		Stanley Hammond	Parliament House Gardens		^[22]
1961	Fern Tree Bower			Wellington Park	Memorial stones commemorate Mayor Henry Cook and the Hobart Town Corporation Waterworks.
1968	Spring Landscape		Stephen Walker
1972	French Memorial Fountain		Stephen Walker	Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens	It is made of Huon Pine, and representing the bow and sails of a French ship.
1978	Launceston Quadrant Mall Well			Quadrant Mall, Launceston
1979	Journey to Southland		Stephen Walker	Salamanca Square Fountain	Circular concrete fountain containing various bronze sculptural forms.It was originally located at Risdon Cove.	^[23] ^[24]
1983	Monument to early surveyors of Tasmania			Off the Lyell Highway, Bronte Park		^[25]
1988	Bust of Roald Amundsen			Castray Esplanade, Battery Point	Outside of Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.	^[26]
1988	The Tasman Fountain		Stephen Walker	Salamanca Place		^[27]
1990	Bright Prospect		Ian McKay	Outside the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on Macquarie Street	Bright Steel
1991	Pageant in Time		Stephen Walker	Burnie City Council, Burnie
1992			Stephen Walker	Launceston, Tasmania	It is to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the first publication of The Examiner magazine.	^[28]
1992	International Wall of Friendship		Rene Rime	Collins Street		^[29] ^[30]
1994	Huskies Memorial		Dan Tucker	Out front of Mawson's Huts Replica	Bronze	^[31]
1996	Fish out of Water		Patrick Hall	Elizabeth Street Mall	It's a drinking fountain.
1996	Maurice the Pig		Patrick Hall	Elizabeth Street Mall
1996	Thompson the Dog		Patrick Hall	Elizabeth Street Mall
1998 and 2002	Heading South		Stephen Walker	Near Macquarie Wharf	BronzeIt has several components, including Seals and Penguins unveiled in 1998, and The Bernacchi Tribute unveiled in 2002.	^[32]
2002	Stratose		John Smith, Penny Smith, and Milan Milojevic	Liffey Falls Conservation Area, Liffey Falls
2002	Sculptures of Great Western Tiers		Paul Noordanus	Deloraine	These are 7 sculptures from 15 different artists and scattered along the countryside mainly on the sides of Deloraine's main street. They are mounted on old oxygen cylinders.	^[33] ^[34]
2006	Sculpture of Ronald Campbell Gunn		Peter Corlett	City Park, Launceston	Bronze	^[35] ^[36]
2007	Earth Drill		David Hamilton	Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston	Painted steel	^[37]
2013	Statue of Eliza Forlong		Peter Corlett	Valentine Park, Campbell Town		^[38]
2014	Happy Birthday Mr President xo		Gillie and Marc	Salamanca Square, Battery Point	Bronze	^[39]
2017	Two Islands		Nigel Helyer	Franklin Square	Timber, steel, lighting and sound technology	^[40]
2017	Footsteps Towards Freedom		Rowan Gillespie	Hunter Street, Macquarie Wharf	It is made of four sculptures commemorate the convict women and their children who were transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).	^[41]
2021	From the Shadows			Out front of Cascades Female Factory	Martha Gregory's statue represents all convict women, especially convict mothers.	^[42]
	St David`s Park Memorial WallsPrint Page			St David's Park	This memorial walls are made up of many of the original headstones from the park’s previous life as the Hobart colony’s first cemetery.	^[43]
	1833			Battery Point	Shoulder-high steel gabions filled with sandstone.It is a part of the Battery Point Sculpture Trail.	^[44] ^[45]
	Seahorse			Mures Lower Deck restaurant, Hobart	It is the restaurant's ornament.
	Progress			Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
	Big Platypus			Australian Axeman's Hall of Fame, Latrobe		^[46]
	Guard Dog			Eaglehawk Neck		^[47] ^[48]
	Children of the World		Keith Smith	Penguin General Cemetery	4.5 metes height.The Penguin community fund-raised to purchase this art piece to celebrate the lives of its many unnamed children.	^[49] ^[50] ^[51]
	Lascar Monument to Port Arthur massacre
	Crest of the Van Diemen's Land Company			Current location of the Metro Cinemas	It was originally located on Van Diemen's Land Company building near the Port of Burnie.Today is displayed outside of the Burnie Regional Museum.	^[52]
	Burnie Water Sculpture			West Beach in Burnie		^[53]
	World Globe			Shropshire Park, Ulverstone	The globe becomes a visual aid for the written material at the park explaining all the battles that took place for those interested.
	Whale			Recherche Bay, Cockle Creek	Bronze	^[54] ^[55]
				Macquarie Street
				Port Latta
				Penguin General Cemetery

External links

• https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/experiences/stories/best-art-in-tasmania/
• https://www.arts.tas.gov.au/industry_development/publicart
• https://tasmania.com/things-to-do/art-in-tasmania/
• https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sir John Franklin Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
2. News: 2016-01-18 . The story behind St David's Park stone lions . 2024-01-17 . ABC News . en-AU.
3. Web site: Charles Meredith Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
4. News: 2023-08-23 . 'A reckoning that's time has come': First colonial-era Australian statue to be torn down . 2024-01-16 . ABC News . en-AU.
5. News: Kelly . Cait . Press . Australian Associated . 2023-08-24 . William Crowther: statue of Tasmanian premier who beheaded body of Aboriginal man to be taken down . 2024-01-16 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
6. Web site: Ross War Memorial Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
7. Web site: South African (Boer) War Memorial Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
8. Web site: Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Anniversary Arch Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
9. Web site: 1920-02-29 . Queenstown War Memorial Places of Pride . 2024-01-17 . placesofpride.awm.gov.au . en.
10. Web site: Queenstown War Memorial Monument Australia . 2024-01-17 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
11. Web site: King Edward VII Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
12. Web site: FRANKLIN SQUARE CONSERVATION PLAN . 17 January 2024 . Ferdene Studio.
13. Web site: Launceston Cenotaph Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . www.monumentaustralia.org.au.
14. Web site: Launceston Cenotaph . 2024-01-16 . World War Two Cemeteries - A photographic guide to the cemeteries and memorials of WW2 . en.
15. Web site: Memorials . 2024-01-16 . www.launceston.tas.gov.au . en-AU.
16. Web site: 2018-12-16 . A short history of the Ulverstone Cenotaph Places of Pride . 2024-01-16 . placesofpride.awm.gov.au . en.
17. Web site: Cenotaph . 2024-01-16 . www.hobartcity.com.au . en-AU.
18. Web site: 2024-01-16 . Stanley War Memorial Places of Pride . 2024-01-17 . placesofpride.awm.gov.au . en.
19. Web site: Stanley War Memorial Monument Australia . 2024-01-17 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
20. Web site: Alfred B Biggs Observatory memorial . 2024-01-16 . Public Art Around The World . en-AU.
21. Web site: Alfred Biggs Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
22. Web site: Albert George Ogilvie Monument Australia . 2024-07-15 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
23. Web site: novisiblemeans . 2015-09-12 . Contemporary public art in and around Hobart . 2024-01-17 . No Visible Means . en-US.
24. Web site: Journeys to the Southland Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
25. Web site: Early Surveyors - Centre of Tasmania Monument Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
26. Web site: Roald Amundsen Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
27. Web site: Abel Tasman Monument Australia . 2024-07-18 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
28. Web site: 150th Anniversary of Examiner Newspaper Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
29. Web site: International Wall of Friendship Monument Australia . 2024-07-17 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
30. Web site: International Wall of Friendship (Official website) . live . 17 July 2024.
31. Web site: Huskies Memorial Monument Australia . 2024-07-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
32. Web site: 'Heading South' Statues at Hobart Harbour . 2024-01-16 . Atlas Obscura . en.
33. Web site: Sculptures of Great Western Tiers . 17 January 2024 . Impart Media.
34. Web site: 2022-04-27 . Sculpture Trail - Great Western Tiers . 2024-01-16 . www.discovertasmania.com.au . en.
35. Web site: Ronald Campbell Gunn statue . 2024-01-16 . Public Art Around The World . en-AU.
36. Web site: Ronald Campbell Gunn Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
37. Web site: Earth Drill sculpture . 2024-01-16 . Public Art Around The World . en-AU.
38. Web site: Eliza Forlong Monument Australia . 2024-01-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
39. Web site: Happy Birthday Mr President xo (Bronze Sculpture) . 2024-01-16 . Gillie and Marc® . en.
40. Web site: Two Islands - Franklin Square . 2024-01-16 . www.hobartcity.com.au . en-AU.
41. Web site: Footsteps Towards Freedom Monument Australia . 2024-07-17 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
42. Web site: From the Shadows: Installation of their first statue, 'Martha Gregory'. . live . 17 July 2024 . Female Convicts Research Centre.
43. Web site: St David`s Park Memorial Walls Monument Australia . 2024-07-16 . monumentaustralia.org.au.
44. Web site: Battery Point Sculpture Trail . 2024-01-16 . SEGD - Designers of Experiences . en-US.
45. Web site: BATTERY POINT SCULPTURE TRAIL . 17 January 2024 . Open House Hobart.
46. Web site: 2021-04-05 . The Big Platypus In Latrobe Big Things Of Australia . 2024-01-16 . bigthingsofaustralia.com . en-GB.
47. Web site: The Dog Line . 2024-01-16 . EagleHawk Neck . en.
48. News: 2019-12-14 . 'Ugly and ferocious': The Dog Line at Eaglehawk Neck stopped Port Arthur convicts escaping . 2024-01-16 . ABC News . en-AU.
49. Web site: Lansdown . Sarah . Penguin's tribute to children stands tall . 12 September 2018 . The Advocate.
50. Web site: Home . 2024-01-16 . Penguin Heritage Trail . en-AU.
51. Web site: 2018-09-16 . Penguin launches Children of the World sculpture memorial . 2024-01-16 . Coast To Canyon . en-AU.
52. Web site: Van Diemen's Land Company Crest in Burnie, Australia . 2024-01-16 . Encircle Photos . en-US.
53. Web site: Octopus Sculptures along West Beach in Burnie, Australia . 2024-01-16 . Encircle Photos . en-US.
54. Web site: Fitzgibbon . Liz . 2021-08-22 . The End of the Road: Four Activities at Cockle Creek . 2024-01-16 . Hobart and Beyond . en-AU.
55. Web site: Cockle Creek Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania . 2024-01-16 . parks.tas.gov.au.