EXPLORE THE MURAL WITH DELVENE
In late September, Onespace joined with the Port of Brisbane CEO and team and Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins to launch a significant new artwork at the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal.
Designed by renowned Quandamooka artist, Delvene Cockatoo-Collins, From Land to Sea is a 600-metre mural painted on the car park perimeter wall depicting a sequence of plant images and natural phenomena. This natural imagery derives from the transition through local landscapes that are typical of the rivers and waterways near the Port of Brisbane and across South-East Queensland.
Delvene’s imagery captures the shift in the landscape, symbolised by individual leaf patterns including the cotton tree or tawalpin, located with the section of green and lighter greens in the mural, and then to the mangrove leaves in greens and bronze. From high tide to low tide on the intertidal zones, sand lines are indicated through the yellows and then passing into the blues of the rivers and waterways.
Port of Brisbane operates on the lands and waters of the Quandamooka, Turrbal and Yuggera peoples. Through this commission, the Port further celebrates First Nations art and culture while also creating a sense of arrival and destination for the many thousands of passengers who travel through the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal every year.
Onespace is proud to have assisted the Port of Brisbane with such significant First Nations public art commissions as this. Delvene’s From Land to Sea work joins the cruise terminal’s major entry sculpture chiggil chiggil pa by internationally renowned Waanyi artist, Judy Watson. (https://onespace.com.au/project/brisbane-international-cruise-terminal/
Onespace would like to sincerely thank the Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd project team Emily Heenan, Clinton Chan and Zen Ng; commissioned artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins; design support from Chris Bassi at the Dialogue Office, and the remarkable painting crew, Matthew Newkirk, Steven Falco, Andy Harwood and Adam Southgate.
Image: Delvene Cockatoo-Collins, From Land to Sea, 2024. Photo: AJ Moller. Courtesy of Port of Brisbane.
