Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery

The Outdoor Gallery projects sees Brisbane’s laneways, nooks and hidden pathways transformed into publicly accessible showcases of thrilling art involving lightboxes (like we have on Fish Lane, across from Julius), banners, vitrines and evening projections on large-scale landmarks.

Council’s latest Outdoor Gallery exhibition, Asia Pacific Triennial Kids: Outdoors presented in collaboration with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)’s Children’s Art Centre.

Asia Pacific Triennial Kids: Outdoors features eye-catching displays made especially for children and families by artists included in QAGOMA’s 11th Asia Pacific Triennial exhibition (Asia Pacific Triennial Kids).

In Fish Lane is artwork by Brett Graham.

Brett Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui, Aotearoa New Zealand b. 1967) creates large-scale sculptures and installations connected to his Māori culture. Many of Graham’s artworks feature traditional Māori patterns, which are often inspired by nature.

This artwork displayed in the Outdoor Gallery features 6 patterns featured in Graham’s Asia Pacific Triennial Kids project, Wakuwaku (2024), which invites children to make rubbings from carved designs.

Look around your natural environment, what patterns can you see?

^{Image Credit: ‘Wakuwaku’ by Brett Graham in Fish Lane featured in Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery Exhibition Asia Pacific Kids: Outdoors 2024-25 presented in collaboration with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)’s Children’s Art Centre.}