Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape

- Lisanne Gibson and Joanna Besley (2004)

Published by University of Queensland Press and sponsored by the Public Art Agency; the University of Melbourne; the Australian Academy of the Humanities; the Environmental Protection Agency; and, the University of Queensland.
From Queen Victoria to King Wally, the Weeping Mother to the Cactoblastis moth, the Big Pineapple to Australia's Big Foot, Monumental Queensland provides an eccentric review of the monuments, memorials, public artworks and big things that are peculiar to Queensland.

Authors Lisanne Gibson and Joanna Besley have selected over 200 of Queensland's diverse public cultural objects and placed them, for the first time, along a continuum. Some old, some new. Some familiar, some forgotten. Some lost forever. These signposts on a cultural landscape provide a unique guide to Queensland's studies and histories.

Monumental Queensland encourages us - whoever and wherever we are - to look closely at the things around us and how they articulate our identity.