Public Art

Marginalia Wrapped, 2021
Brisbane City Council

Marginalia Wrapped brings together enlarged gestural marks, abstracted details from architectural elements, and colours surrounding the Toowong Overpass.

Patterned shapes cover the mural surface, they are overlaid with enlarged gestural marks celebrating a human connection in urban space. These enlarged gestural scribbles transform the incidental into the monumental in this work.

The design also references an idea of simultaneous concealing and revealing as gestural marks are painted as if in a translucent overlay on the surface of the work. This encourages a kind of deep looking as new details are revealed each time the work is encountered. Viewers can look through the details in this work to see things differently.

Images courtesy: Cian Sanders