HIT THE ROAD FOR ART TOUR
WE’VE travelled across the Gold and Tweed Coasts to seek out the best art galleries – but now it’s time for our own public art trail.
The Gold Coast is good at being colourful and a drive through the area looking at these amazing murals and sculptures won’t disappoint.
Let’s begin in Surfers Paradise on the Esplanade, where you’ll find our Games legacy sculpture “All Eyes on Us – The Commonwealth Star’’. This is a fun, red, pointy sculpture that demands you get under it before insisting your partner take multiple pictures of you with it.
Then head towards Main Beach, where you can spot a very colourful mural in Waterways Dve on the sewer pump station. This particular mural celebrates our brightly coloured native birds.
Next stop is at Seaworld Dve on The Spit, where you’ll spot a cylindrical recycled water tank painted in blue tones with seaplants, hinting to the beautiful ocean just metres away. Feel free to take a dip while you’re here, or grab some fish and chips.
Then head to Pendraat Pde at Hope Island, where you’ll spot a cormorant painted on a sewer pump station.
At Pacific Pines, in Pacific Pines Blvd, you’ll come across a huge abstract floral design painted on to a water reservoir.
To round it off, head to Kirra Hill, where you can spot the handsome sculpture of an eagle on top of a spire.
This is but a taste of the public art we have on the Gold Coast, with additional graffiti murals at Chirn Park and Southport, as well as fish sculptures at Labrador.
For more fun public art, visit the city council’s website.