Great Court

About this audio guide

This guide to the Great Court at the University of Queensland in Brisbane turns on a rule the campus kept for decades without writing it down: no real, living face could appear on its sandstone walls. It follows John Muller, the German-Australian sculptor who found a loophole in the nineteen thirties, and Rhyl Hinwood, who carved on in his place decades later, hiding professors, deans and workers inside grotesque stone faces. Look for the arch with a jovial man gripping a beer mug as you cross the cloisters.