Brisbane City Hall

About this audio guide

This guide to Brisbane City Hall follows sculptor Daphne Mayo, hired in nineteen twenty-seven to carve the huge frieze above its entrance almost single-handedly, for a fee said to be the highest any Australian woman artist had yet received. It traces her training in Sydney and London, the team of assistants who helped her cut stone directly into the wall, and the crowded scene of explorers, settlers and Aboriginal figures she carved above the doorway. Best heard standing in King George Square, where you can take in the whole width of her carving at once.