List of public art in Melbourne

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

Sculptures

Year Name Image Artist Location Notes Ref
Late 1800s Atlas Unknown 406 Collins Street

37.8168807°S 144.9608172°E / -37.8168807; 144.9608172

Bronze
1880 Exhibition Fountain

(or Hochgurtel Fountain)

Joseph Hochgurtel Carlton Gardens south of the Royal Exhibition Building

37.8054227°S 144.9713886°E / -37.8054227; 144.9713886

Portland cement, stone, iron

1037 x 1830 cm

1889 Saint George and the Dragon Joseph Edgar Boehm Forecourt of State Library Victoria

37.8098888°S 144.9644856°E / -37.8098888; 144.9644856

Bronze
1901 Springthorpe Memorial Bertram Mackennal (Sculptor)

Harold Desbrowe-Annear (Architecture of the temple)

Boroondara General Cemetery

37°48′12.13″S 145°2′31.32″E

The memorial was built by John Springthorpe, in honour of his wife, Annie Springthorpe (née Inglis), who died in 1897 at the age of 30 while giving birth to their fourth child.
1902 Lance Corporal George Rowland Button Memorial Whitehorse Road, Box Hill

37.8182079°S 145.1250094°E / -37.8182079; 145.1250094

1903 8 Hours Movement Percival Ball 8 Hour Reserve

37.807155°S 144.9655882°E / -37.807155; 144.9655882

Granite, bronze, gold-leaf, stone

1185 cm (height). 480 x 460 cm (base)

1904 South African War Memorial Joseph Hamilton Queen Victoria Gardens

37.8259264°S 144.9718341°E / -37.8259264; 144.9718341

Sandstone, bluestone

1200 x 500 cm (overall approximately)

1915 Thomas Wilkinson Memorial Brunswick

37.7774969299°S 144.960311951°E / -37.7774969299; 144.960311951

1926 A Tribute To Our War Horses Near Shrine of Remembrance

37.8295623°S 144.9740631°E / -37.8295623; 144.9740631

1956 Olympic Pylon Arthur Boyd On the side of the Holden Centre in Swan Street

37.823703°S 144.980344°E / -37.823703; 144.980344

Victorian Heritage Register number H1977
1959 The Trial of Socrates Tom Bass University of Melbourne
1963 Children's Tree Tom Bass Junction of Elizabeth Street and Collins Street

37.816109°S 144.963809°E / -37.816109; 144.963809

Bronze
1964 Untitled Norma Redpath McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery
1964 Flight Arrested Inge King McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery

38°8′44″S 145°10′33.1″E

Welded steel. 242 x 255 x 218 cm.

It is the earliest of three Inge King works at the McClelland Gallery Sculpture Park.

1965 Edward George Honey Memorial Unknown Kings Domain, near

Shrine of Remembrance 37.8297536°S 144.9744181°E / -37.8297536; 144.9744181

Stone, bronze, aluminium

110 cm (overall height)

1968 Desert Arch Norma Redpath McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery
1970 Sofia Herman Hohaus La Trobe University Sculpture Park

37.721869°S 145.048450°E / -37.721869; 145.048450

Cast bronze
1973 Phoenix Yrsa von Leistner 37.8224116°S 144.9705883°E / -37.8224116; 144.9705883 Cast bronze, welded copper sheet

326 cm (overall height)

1974 Mary Gilbert Ailsa O'Connor Cement fondu

81 x 53 x 36 cm

1976 Dialogue of Circles Inge King In the Moat, near the Moat Theatre, directly north of the Union, in La Trobe University

37°43′20.4″S 145°2′59.8″E

1976 Forward Surge Inge King Arts Centre Melbourne

37°49′14″S 144°58′5.8″E

50mm mild steel

It got painted in 1981 516 x 1514 x 1368cm Commissioned by the William Angliss Art Fund

1977 Dante's Divine Comedy Bart Sanciolo La Trobe University Sculpture Park 10 metres high, freestanding bronze
1978 The Four Seasons Leonard French La Trobe University Sculpture Park Stained glass
1978 Rock Fall Diego Latella La Trobe University Sculpture Park Steel
1980 Vault Ron Robertson-Swann 37°49′33.87″S 144°58′3.82″E Painted steel

615 x 1184 x 1003 cm

1980 Sun Ribbon Inge King University of Melbourne

37.797085°S 144.961956°E / -37.797085; 144.961956

The sculpture is made from 19mm thick steel. It was installed on Union Lawn in 1982.
1981 Dervish Clement Meadmore 37°49′11.5″S 144°58′1.7″E
1981 Stages 1, 2, 3 Ronald Upton Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen ferrocement
1984 Jabaroo Inge King McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery

38°8′44″S 145°10′33.1″E

1984 Basket and Wave Dennis Oppenheim Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen Steel, concrete, synthetic polymer paint
1985 Landscape Caryatide Norma Redpath McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery Ceramic, steel, concrete

924.5 x 992.5 x 351.5cm

1987

–

1989

Angel Deborah Halpern Birrarung Marr

37°49′06.71″S 144°58′24.60″E

1987 Scales Peter Rosman Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen Mixed media, ferrocement
1988 Shadow Form III Robert Juniper 140 William Street

37.8158209°S 144.958335°E / -37.8158209; 144.958335

The steel sculpture represents a clump of steel plants. The concrete plinth is a handy seat for office workers.
1988 Dragonfly Tom Merrifield Pavlova Walk, Arts Centre Melbourne

37.822785°S 144.968097°E / -37.822785; 144.968097

1989 Shell Mace Charles O Perry Northwest intersection of Flinders Street and Spring Street

37.815137°S 144.97444°E / -37.815137; 144.97444

Aluminum
1991 Island Sculpture Inge King McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery

38°8′44″S 145°10′33.1″E

1992 Larry La Trobe Pamela Irving Corner of Collins Street and Swanston Street

37.815496°S 144.966638°E / -37.815496; 144.966638

Bronze, 70 cm hight

Recast in 1996.

1992 Ophelia Deborah Halpern Southbank Promenade

37.819790°S 144.966359°E / -37.819790; 144.966359

Ceramic tiles, steel, concrete.

It was chosen as ‘the Face of Melbourne’ by Tourism Victoria in 1996.

1992 Fortuna Peter Corlett Corner Queen Street and Flanklin Street

37.8090998°S 144.9582136°E / -37.8090998; 144.9582136

Concreate, 6 metres Hight
1993 Architectural Fragment Petrus Spronk Swanston Street

37.809714°S 144.964102°E / -37.809714; 144.964102

Made from Port Fairy bluestone, it is rising out of the ground outside the State Library Victoria
1993 Three Businessmen Who Brought Their Own Lunch: Batman, Swanston And Hoddle Alison Weaver and Paul Quinn Corner of Bourke Street and Swanston Street

37.813856°S 144.965543°E / -37.813856; 144.965543

Three whimsical, life-size bronze sculptures
1993 Industrial Flowers Akira Takizawa Newport Park, Newport Steel
1993 A History Apparatus - Vessel, Craft and Beacon Chris Reynolds Corner of Russel Street and Bourke Street

37.8130142°S 144.9682353°E / -37.8130142; 144.9682353

Steel, fibreglass, bitumen, concrete, bluestone

450 x 2400 x 300 cm

It sits above the first women's public toilet built in Melbourne in 1902

1994 Public Purse Simon Perry North West end of the Bourke Street Mall, outside of H&M/the GPO Building.

37.813965°S 144.963505°E / -37.813965; 144.963505

It is one of the biggest things in Australia.
1994 Time and Tide Akio Makigawa Junction of Swanston Street and Little Collins Street

37.8143715°S 144.9662315°E / -37.8143715; 144.9662315

Bluestone, white marble, bronze, stainless steel, concrete, fibre optics

800 x 2000 cm

1995 Shearwater Inge King Southbank Promenade

37.820492°S 144.964278°E / -37.820492; 144.964278

Steel, paint

780 x 670 x 350cm.

Originally commissioned by ESSO Mobil Australia.

1995 Wind Contrivance Pauline Fraser Therry Street

37.807275°S 144.9592161°E / -37.807275; 144.9592161

Bronze, redgum, Harcourt granite

274 x 150 x 65 cm

1996 Running Man Rick Amor Heide Museum of Modern Art Bronze

170 x 50 x 183 cm

1996 Rhythms of the Metropolis Andrew Rogers 200 Queen Street

37.8138522°S 144.9603886°E / -37.8138522; 144.9603886

Bronze
1996 The Echo Edward Ginger Junction of Swanston Street and Little Bourke Street

37.8127118°S 144.9651338°E / -37.8127118; 144.9651338

Mild steel plate, polyurethane paint

450 x 200 x 190 cm

1996 Ceremony and Vehicle for Conveying Spirit Maurie Hughes Junction of Russel Street and Little Collins Street

37.813705°S 144.9685196°E / -37.813705; 144.9685196

Silicon bronze, galvanized and mild steel

460 x 90 cm (urn); 267 cm (archway, height); 270 cm (sentinels, height)

1997 Guardians Simon Rigg Southbank Promenade, outside of Crown Melbourne

37.821632°S 144.960050°E / -37.821632; 144.960050

Marble and clad with ceramic tiles.
1997 Constellation Geoffrey Bartlett and Bruce Armstrong Southbank

37.8202541°S 144.9606488°E / -37.8202541; 144.9606488

Timber, copper, stainless steel

five elements, each approximately 500 x 250 x 400 cm It captures the natural suggestions of clouds, the billowing of sails, rigging, the movement of wind vanes and the associations of ships' figureheads.

1997 Stone House Andy Goldsworthy Herring Island Dunkeld sandstone
1997 Steerage Jill Peck Herring Island Harcourt granite
1997 Cairn Andy Goldworthy Herring Island Castlemaine slate
1997 Audience Julie Collins Herring Island Bluestone
1997 A Hill, A River, Two Rocks and A Presence John Davis Herring Island Timber, limestone, and sandstone
1997 Tanderrum Ellen Jose Herring Island Castlemaine slate and redbox
1998 Ramp Robert Jacks Herring Island Red gum
1999 Scaled Stem Robert Bridgewater Herring Island Cyprus macrocarpa
1999 Neutrino Glen Dunn Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

37.8298338°S 144.9755509°E / -37.8298338; 144.9755509

The sculpture commemorates the opening of the Observatory Gate at the Botanic Gardens in 1999.
1999 Threaded Field

Simon Perry Different places around Docklands Stadium

37.81539°S 144.947047°E / -37.81539; 144.947047

1999 Sculpture Cow Up A Tree John Kelly Harbour Esplanade, Docklands

37.817064°S 144.945266°E / -37.817064; 144.945266

Bronze, oil-based paint

A surreal sculpture

1999 Unity 1998-99 Stephen Glassborow In front of Box Hill Town Hall, In the middle of Whitehorse Road

37.8184777°S 145.126854°E / -37.8184777; 145.126854

2000 Fairfield Industrial Dog Object Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox 37°46′44.5″S 145°1′4.6″E It is one of the biggest things in Australia.

The work is constructed from recycled hardwood, standing 5.5 metres tall and approximately 8 metres long.

2000 Sentinel Inge King Located at junction of the Eastern Freeway and Doncaster Road, Doncaster

37°47′18.2″S 145°6′11.6″E

The 13-metre high and 12 tonnes weight sculpture's curved shape symbolises the two creeks of the municipality - the Mullum Mullum and the Koonung Creeks.
2001 River Peel Michael Bellemo & Cat MacLeod (Bellemo & Cat)
2001 Windhover Lenton Parr Sandringham foreshore

(near to where Parr lived)

Stainless steel
2001 Falling Fence John Gollings with Samantha Slicer Herring Island Cypress-pine
2001 Australian Hellenic Memorial Evangelos Sakaris Kings Domain

37.8274828°S 144.9731071°E / -37.8274828; 144.9731071

Granite, cast bronze, white marble

12 columns, 300 x 3600 x 3600 cm (overall approx.)

2002 Federation Bells Anton Haselt and Neil MacLachlan Birrarung Marr

37.8187328°S 144.974162°E / -37.8187328; 144.974162

2002 Victoria Police Memorial Anton Hasell and Marcus Ward Queen Victoria Gardens

37.824285°S 144.9710185°E / -37.824285; 144.9710185

2003 Shoal Fly Michael Bellemo & Cat MacLeod (Bellemo & Cat) Harbour Esplanade in front of Docklands Stadium

37.817391°S 144.945298°E / -37.817391; 144.945298

It is a sculpture group.

It is not there anymore.

2003 Eagle Bruce Armstrong Grand Hyatt Melbourne (123 Collins Street)

37.8153942°S 144.9695914°E / -37.8153942; 144.9695914

Until 2013 it was located on Wurundjeri Way, Docklands. Then it moved to Grand Hyatt Melbourne forefront.
2003 Silence Adrian Mauriks NewQuay Promenade, Docklands

37.815208°S 144.941790°E / -37.815208; 144.941790

Fibre Glass

13 elements

460 x 1250 x 1850 cm (overall)

It doesn't exit there anymore.

2003 2002 Bali Bombings Memorial Perry Lethlean Lincoln Square, Swanston Street, Carlton

37.802454°S 144.9632997°E / -37.802454; 144.9632997

Granite, concrete, stainless steel

20 x 1220 x 1220 cm

2004 Landmark Charles Robb La Trobe University Fibreglass, polyester resin, steel, polystrene, polyurethane, sand, automotive lacquers, acrylic paint

490.0 x 130.00 x 130.0 cm

2004 Manna Gum Simon Horsburgh Bulleen Park (next to main oval carpark) Made from recycled materials. Inspired by the local eucalypt blossoms and marks the start of the Bolin Bolin Cultural Landscape Trail.
2004 Reed Vessel Virginia King Henry Doodie Park, Docklands

37.821947°S 144.947337°E / -37.821947; 144.947337

Materials: Vessel Hull 5mm, Vessel Cladding 2mm Marine Grade 316 Stainless Steel. Aluminium louvers, recycled plastic decking, aluminium and bronze castings.

The sculpture embraces themes of migration, the river and the sea.

2004 Signature Work Emily Floyd Harbour Esplanade, Docklands

37.8191959°S 144.9472163°E / -37.8191959; 144.9472163

Cast aluminium plate, polyurethane paint
2005 Blowhole Duncan Stemler Docklands Steel, anodized steel, gears

1500 cm height

2005 Rings of Saturn Inge King Heide Museum of Modern Art

37°45′31.7″S 145°4′58.3″E

Stainless steel

45.5 x 51 x 61 cm Gift of Inge King through the Heide Foundation 2006

2005 Continuum Michael Snape Bourke Street, Docklands

37.818937°S 144.947412°E / -37.818937; 144.947412

Continuum is essentially about the dance of life, reflecting the human condition of being alive. The interconnected figures encircle each other and reach up to the sky, conveying a sense of community, cooperation and wellbeing. The artist was inspired by Docklands coming to life again, impacting on the community’s sense of self and causing “an internal shift: this is the continuum.”
2005 Lillies Adrian Mauriks NewQuay Promenade, Docklands

37.8145047°S 144.9431235°E / -37.8145047; 144.9431235

Painted epoxy resin and aluminium.

It exhibited in Contempora 2, Docklands Festival of Sculpture at New Quay

2005 The Travelers

Nadim Karam & Atelier Hapsitus Queensbridge Square, Southbank

37.8210224°S 144.9618235°E / -37.8210224; 144.9618235

More than 3.7 km of stainless steel (in 4455 pieces) was used to create these sculptures. The average weight of each figure is 2307 kg while the heaviest figure is 7701kg.

10 different sculpture representing 10 periods Australian immigration.

2006 Aqualung John Meade Captain Walk, Docklands

37.8188749°S 144.9449886°E / -37.8188749; 144.9449886

Glass reinforced concrete, pigment, steel

9 tonnes 30 meters

2006 The Relic Rick Amor McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery Bronze, cor-ten steel

204. cm × 62 cm × 72 cm (80 in × 24 in × 28 in)

There is another version of this sculpture in Canberra located near the intersection of Childers Street and University Avenue.

2006 Aurora Geoffrey Bartlett Corner of Harbour Esplanade and Bourke Street, Docklands

37.818704°S 144.9468114°E / -37.818704; 144.9468114

Stainless Steel

12.0 x 12.0 x 12.0 m

Resembling an inverted cargo net the sweeping curves and net-like construction of Aurora makes a symbolic lInk to the history of Docklands as Victoria's most important port and a place of transit for goods and people.

2006 Diver Simon Perry and Drew Cole Newport Lake's entrance Bluestone
2006

Wharf Lane, Docklands

37.8227916°S 144.9531462°E / -37.8227916; 144.9531462

72 fish sculptures were created to represent each nation competing in the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
2006 Rings of Jupiter Inge King Federation Square

37.8179224°S 144.9692012°E / -37.8179224; 144.9692012

Stainless steel

180.0 × 210.0 × 216.0 cm

2007 Requiem for a Champion Yvonne George Altona Coastal Park Bronze, steel and paint
2008 Hotel Callum Morton Eastlink Motorway
2008 Great Petition Susan Hewitt and Penelope Lee Burston Reserve in East Melbourne

37.81150°S 144.97519°E / -37.81150; 144.97519

Bluestone and steel
2008 Public Art Strategy Emily Floyd Eastlink Motorway
2008 Red Rings Inge King Junction of the eastLink Trail and the Dandenong Creek Trail

37.899511°S 145.213959°E / -37.899511; 145.213959

The Red Rings challenges passers, by to walk through and arouse their curiosity to explore the forms. The three painted steel rings are each 2.5 metres in diameter.
2008 Orion Michael Bellemo & Cat MacLeod (Bellemo & Cat) 430 St Kilda Road

37.83714°S 144.9753°E / -37.83714; 144.9753

2008 Unfurling

Andrew Rogers Forecourt, National Foods Building, Docklands

37.81857°S 144.9487231°E / -37.81857; 144.9487231

Bronze

Each organic form is delicately balanced on a tightly curled base that unfurls as it extends upwards and outward in a continuously rippling spiral shape.

2009 Serpent II Bert Flugelman Foyer, 28 Freshwater Place Stainless steel
2009 Interlocked II Inge King Four interlocked rings

Private collection

2010 Centenary of First Powered Controlled Sustained Circuit Flight in Australia Diggers Rest, Victoria

37.6286694444°S 144.721405556°E / -37.6286694444; 144.721405556

Sculpture commemorating Harry Houdini and the first powered flight in Australia
2010 Spun Chair Thomas Heatherwick Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Flinders Street

37.8173236°S 144.9688148°E / -37.8173236; 144.9688148

Designed in 2010 by Thomas Heatherwick. Manufactured in 2016 by Magis, Torre di Mosto, Italy
2011 The River Runs Through Mark Stoner Australian Warf, Docklands

37.8220789°S 144.9445373°E / -37.8220789; 144.9445373

Pre-cast concrete, brick and plantings

Dimensions variable

2013 Raising the Rattler Pole - the Last of the Connies David Michael Bell Corner of Spencer Street and Flinders Street

37.8209372°S 144.9547809°E / -37.8209372; 144.9547809

It is a 1:1-scale replica and tilted at 10 degrees and finished in a bluestone effect.

The Rattler is a reproduction of Tram 1040, the 40th and last tram built at the Preston Tram Works to service Bourke Street in 1956.

2014 Apparatus for Transtemporal Occurrence of Impending Space Russell Anderson Lower pontoon, North Bank Wharf

37.823264°S 144.953001°E / -37.823264; 144.953001

Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components
2014 Run for Your Life Gillie and Marc La Trobe University Sculpture Park Bronze

Dimensions variable

2014 Shadow Trees Sally Smart Corner of Bourke Street and Collins Street, Docklands

37.8205992°S 144.9409424°E / -37.8205992; 144.9409424

Painted and fabricated mild steel

1200 cm (height)

2014 Wulunj (Digging Stick) Glenn Romanis, Brodie Hill 720 Bourke St, Docklands

37.8179094°S 144.9484557°E / -37.8179094; 144.9484557

Australian Hardwood, Salvaged Pier Pylon, Basalt.
2015 Australian Turkish Friendship Memorial Matthew Harding Kings Domain

37.828318°S 144.973953°E / -37.828318; 144.973953

3.8m height
2017 Summertime Anne Ross Brighton Dog Beach, Brighton

37.907414°S 144.985322°E / -37.907414; 144.985322

Bronze

It is a tribute to the local dog beach.

2022 Resting Light Donal Molly-Drum Box Hill Town Hall

37.8191202°S 145.1268647°E / -37.8191202; 145.1268647

Construct V Adrian Mauriks Chadstone Shopping Centre
Construct II Adrian Mauriks
Orchid Robyn Latham Greensborough railway station

37.7037895°S 145.1076715°E / -37.7037895; 145.1076715

Paul Raphael Montford Shrine of Remembrance

37.830594°S 144.973752°E / -37.830594; 144.973752

Four large buttress statues of the Shrine representing

Peace and Goodwill,

Patriotism

Justice

Sacrifice

Unknown Outside BaroqHouse, Drewery Lane

37.811217°S 144.964125°E / -37.811217; 144.964125

Unknown 990 La Trobe St, Docklands

37.8142013°S 144.9465796°E / -37.8142013; 144.9465796

Unknown End of Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands

37.8188117°S 144.9342445°E / -37.8188117; 144.9342445

Unknown 1 Queensberry St, Carlton

37.805292°S 144.9688233°E / -37.805292; 144.9688233

Unknown Next to Docklands Stadium

37.8180089°S 144.9468161°E / -37.8180089; 144.9468161

Statues

Year Subject Image Artist Location Notes Ref
1865 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills Charles Summers City Square, Melbourne

37.815663°S 144.966523°E / -37.815663; 144.966523

Bronze, granite

800 x 300 x 300 cm (overall)

1887 Charles George Gordon Hamo Thornycroft Gordon Reserve

37.813°S 144.974°E / -37.813; 144.974

Limestone, Harcourt granite, bronze

330 cm (overall height)

1887 Redmond Barry James Gilbert & Percival Ball Out of the ground outside the State Library Victoria

37.8100704°S 144.9643683°E / -37.8100704; 144.9643683

1888 Unknown Charles William Scurry McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery

38.14615°S 145.176636°E / -38.14615; 145.176636

It was originally in Federal Coffee Palace Melbourne.
1890 Daniel O'Connell Thomas Brock Outside of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne

37°48′35.34″S 144°58′33.45″E

Commissioned 1886, cast in Belgium 1888, erected 1890
1897 Francis Ormond Percival Ball Melbourne RMIT University City Campus

37.809127°S 144.964885°E / -37.809127; 144.964885

1903 Robert Burns George Anderson Lawson Treasury Gardens

37°48′51.74″S 144°58′30.19″E

Bronze, granite

584 x 79 x 79 cm (overall). 300 cm (granite pedestal)

1907 Queen Victoria James White 37.821775°S 144.972305°E / -37.821775; 144.972305

Royal Botanic Gardens

White Carrara marble, Harcourt granite, NSW marble

1100 cm (overall height)

1907 Joan of Arc Emmanuel Frémiet State Library Victoria

37°48′36″S 144°57′50.4″E

Bronze
1911 Marquess of Linlithgow William Birnie Rhind Junction of St Kilda Road & Linlithgow Avenue

37.826675°S 144.971906°E / -37.826675; 144.971906

Bronze, granite

778 cm (overall height). 350 cm (sculpture); 428 cm (pedestal)

1913 Henry Hawkins Skinner James White South Melbourne

37.838672°S 144.963457°E / -37.838672; 144.963457

1914 Statue of James Cook, St Kilda John Tweed Royal Yacht Squadron Catani Gardens, St Kilda

37.863953°S 144.971553°E / -37.863953; 144.971553

1918 Our Lady of Victories Vincenzo Cadorin Basilica, Camberwell Height: 14 feet (430 cm)

Material: wood, copper sheathed and plated with gold leaf

1920 Edward VII Bertram Mackennal Queen Victoria Gardens

37.82281166°S 144.9705°E / -37.82281166; 144.9705

Bronze, basalt, granite

427 x 472 x 229 cm (pedestal and statue). 200 x 2183 x 750 cm (semi-circular entrance)

1925 Matthew Flinders Charles Web Gilbert St Paul's Cathedral37°49′1.21″S 144°58′2.21″E Bronze, granite

596 cm (overall height). 359 cm (sculpture); 237 cm (base)

1926 Peter Pan Paul Montford Melbourne Zoo

37.784728°S 144.952544°E / -37.784728; 144.952544

Bronze

150 cm (height approx.)

1930 The Court Favourite Paul Raphael Montford Flagstaff Gardens Bronze, granite

304 cm (overall height). 160 cm (sculpture); 144cm (base)

1932 Adam Lindsay Gordon Paul Raphael Montford Spring Street

37.812529°S 144.973524°E / -37.812529; 144.973524

Bronze statue on sandstone pedestal

289 cm (overall height). 147 cm (sculpture); 142 cm (pedestal)

1935 The Man with the Donkey Wallace Anderson Shrine of Remembrance

37.829765°S 144.973965°E / -37.829765; 144.973965

Bronze

78 × 66 × 42 cm.

Memorial to John Simpson Kirkpatrick

1935 John Wesley Paul Raphael Montford Wesley Uniting Church

37.810072°S 144.968161°E / -37.810072; 144.968161

1937 Driver & Wipers Memorial Charles Sargeant Jagger Shrine of Remembrance

37°49′47.56″S 144°58′25.45″E

1937 George Higinbotham Paul Raphael Montford Old Treasury Building

37.812789°S 144.973974°E / -37.812789; 144.973974

1950 John Monash Leslie Bowles Birdwood Avenue, Kings Domain

37.826784°S 144.972766°E / -37.826784; 144.972766

Bronze

276 x 161 x 371 cm

1952 King George V Leslie Bowles Kings Domain, near Sidney Myer Music Bowl Reserve

37.8242773°S 144.9731566°E / -37.8242773; 144.9731566

Bronze, sandstone, granite, bluestone

3.66 m (sculpture); 16.80 m (column)

1960 Thomas Blamey Raymond Boultwood Ewers Kings Domain

37.826315°S 144.972824°E / -37.826315; 144.972824

Bronze, granite

368 cm (overall height)

1970 Water Children John Edward Robinson Queen Victoria Gardens

37.8226144°S 144.9706879°E / -37.8226144; 144.9706879

Bronze

2 figures, 70 x 160 cm

1974 Pathfinder John Edward Robinson Queen Victoria Gardens

37.82201°S 144.9704022°E / -37.82201; 144.9704022

Bronze

260 cm (diagonal line)

1979 John Batman Stanley Hammond Former National Mutual plaza, Collins Street

37.817687°S 144.959526°E / -37.817687; 144.959526

1986 White Horse White Horse Hotel

Maroondah Highway, Box Hill

The statue of the white horse on the porch of the White Horse Hotel was a land mark in Box Hill. This replica of the statue was erected on the median strip in Whitehorse Road in 1986. The original horse is kept in the Box Hill Town Hall.
1994 Bunyip Rob Brooks Outside the State Library Victoria

37.810272°S 144.964264°E / -37.810272; 144.964264

1995 Dragoljub Mihailovic Serbian National Centre, Carrum Downs

38.088193°S 145.180645°E / -38.088193; 145.180645

1995 Edward Dunlop Peter Corlett Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Bronze, granite

260 x 80.3 x 50.5 cm

A second edition of this statue (number 2 of 2) stands to the east side of the entrance to the Australian War Memorial. It was acquired by the Memorial in 1995.

1997 Ted Whitten Outside of the Whitten Oval

37.79976°S 144.885549°E / -37.79976; 144.885549

1997 Doug Hawkins Outside the Braybrook Hotel, Ballarat Road, Braybrook

37.779446°S 144.848050°E / -37.779446; 144.848050

A bronze, almost life-sized statue
1998 Widow and Children Louis Laumen Legacy Garden of Appreciation, Shrine of Remembrance

37.8302742°S 144.9743548°E / -37.8302742; 144.9743548

1999 Daniel Mannix Nigel Boonham Outside of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne

37°48′38.05″S 144°58′33.46″E

Commissioned 1997, erected in March 1999
1999 St Peter the Fisherman Louis Laumen St Peter's Catholic Church, Toorak

37.8417666°S 145.0162361°E / -37.8417666; 145.0162361

1999 Rupert Hamer Peter Corlett Treasury Gardens

37.813431°S 144.9749348°E / -37.813431; 144.9749348

A life-size bronze statue
1999 Albert Dunstan and Henry Bolte Peter Corlett Treasury Gardens

37.81336°S 144.9751957°E / -37.81336; 144.9751957

A life-size bronze statue
1999 John Cain Peter Corlett Treasury Gardens

37.8132909°S 144.9753425°E / -37.8132909; 144.9753425

A life-size bronze statue
2000 St Francis of Assisi Louis Laumen St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne

37°48′37.56″S 144°58′35.78″E

2000 St Catherine of Siena Louis Laumen St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
2001 Rod Laver Outside the Rod Laver Arena

37.822282°S 144.9789986°E / -37.822282; 144.9789986

2001 First Australian Rules Football Game Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.818839°S 144.982038°E / -37.818839; 144.982038

Dedicated to Tom Wills
2002 Sportsmanship Melbourne Mitch Mitchell Olympic Park Oval

37°49′29″S 144°58′52″E

This statue depicts sportsmanship by John Landy helping his fellow runner Ron Clarke.
2003 Betty Cuthbert Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.8185457°S 144.9840991°E / -37.8185457; 144.9840991

2003 Ron Barassi Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground
2003 Don Bradman Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.8205665°S 144.9849969°E / -37.8205665; 144.9849969

2004 George Adams Stephen Walker St Kilda Road

41.625808°S 147.148008°E / -41.625808; 147.148008

2004 John Brosnan Peter Corlett Brunswick, Victoria
2004 Dick Reynolds Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.8212286°S 144.983798°E / -37.8212286; 144.983798

2004 Shirley Strickland Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.8186272°S 144.9844326°E / -37.8186272; 144.9844326

2005 St Mary Mackillop Louis Laumen St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
2005 Bill Ponsford Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.8198408°S 144.9814068°E / -37.8198408; 144.9814068

2005 Leigh Matthews Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.820678°S 144.985702°E / -37.820678; 144.985702

2006 Charles La Trobe Peter Corlett State Library Victoria

37.809631°S 144.964213°E / -37.809631; 144.964213

Bronze

Gifted to the Library by the La Trobe Society

2006 Nellie Melba Peter Corlett Coombe Yarra Valley Estate, Coldstream

37.719483°S 145.380251°E / -37.719483; 145.380251

Bronze

It was located in Waterfront City, Docklands. In 2022 it is moved to Coombe Yarra Valley Estate, Coldstream.

2006 Kylie Minogue Peter Corlett (sculptor)-Statues

David Jack (Mural) Original art

Waterfront City, Docklands

37.815327°S 144.939411°E / -37.815327; 144.939411

Bronze, dressed in a lace bodystocking and electric red heels
2006 Dame Edna Everage Peter Corlett (sculptor)-Statues

David Jack (Mural) Original art

Docklands Bronze
2006 John Farnham Peter Corlett (sculptor)-Statues

David Jack (Mural) Original art

Waterfront City, Docklands Bronze
2006 Graham Kennedy Peter Corlett (sculptor)-Statues

David Jack (Mural) Original art

Waterfront City, Docklands Bronze
2006 Bob Rose Mitch Mitchell Holden Centre, Olympic Park Oval

37.823579°S 144.979636°E / -37.823579; 144.979636

Bronze
2006 Dennis Lillee Louis Laumen Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.8190431°S 144.9818701°E / -37.8190431; 144.9818701

Bronze
2007 Pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls and Lady Gladys Nicholls Memorial Louis Laumen Spring Street, Parliament Gardens, East Melbourne

37.809992°S 144.973605°E / -37.809992; 144.973605

Bronze

270 cm (height)

2008 Cobbers Peter Corlett 37.83228°S 144.972523°E / -37.83228; 144.972523
2011 Shane Warne Louis Laumen Outside Melbourne Cricket Ground

37.8185155°S 144.9830859°E / -37.8185155; 144.9830859

2012 Mr Lizard and Gumnut Baby Smiley Williams Forecourt of State Library Victoria

37.809795°S 144.9643803°E / -37.809795; 144.9643803

Bronze

Based on Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs

2013 John Coleman Lis Johnson Melbourne Cricket Ground
2013 Frog John Olsen Queen Victoria Gardens

37.8224475°S 144.970472°E / -37.8224475; 144.970472

Bronze

200 cm (height)

2014 Jim Stynes Lis Johnson Melbourne Cricket Ground
2016 Comfort woman 37.910064°S 145.102449°E / -37.910064; 145.102449 This statue is a copy of the one outside the Japanese Embassy in South Korea.
2017 Kevin Bartlett Lis Johnson Yarra Park Bronze
2023 Zelda D’Aprano Jennifer Mann Outside Trades Hall Victoria

37.806706°S 144.966186°E / -37.806706; 144.966186

Bronze
Makybe Diva Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn

Busts

Year Subject Image Artist Location Notes Ref
1902 William John Clarke Bertram Mackennal Treasury Gardens

37.813679°S 144.974351°E / -37.813679; 144.974351

Marble

461 cm (overall height). 276 cm (sculpture); 185 cm (pedestal)

1926 Edith Cavell Margaret Baskerville Kings Domain

37.8280945°S 144.9737737°E / -37.8280945; 144.9737737

Marble, granite, bronze

382 cm (overall height). 82 cm (bust); 300 cm (pedestal)

1932 Carlo Catani Paul Raphael Montford St Kilda
1993

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2021

Tennis champion busts Mostly Barbara McLean Australian Tennis Hall of Fame

2001 Alojzije Stepinac Mladen Mikulin St Patrick's Cathedral,

East Melbourne

37.810451°S 144.97671°E / -37.810451; 144.97671

2009 Leonidas I Brunswick, Victoria

37.7664766992°S 144.962291548°E / -37.7664766992; 144.962291548

It symbolizes the friendship and connection between Greece and Australia.
2013 Ferdinand von Mueller Marc Clark National Herbarium of Victoria

37.830614°S 144.977185°E / -37.830614; 144.977185

See also