Social Sculptures, 2026
A bold and unexpected after-dark art crawl.
Social Sculptures takes over Fish Lane for one night only, transforming the iconic urban strip into a vivid landscape of contemporary public art. Presented by Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art and Design, the event unfolds as a sequence of bold sculptural, spatial, and performative works that animate the lane after dark. Audiences are invited to move through a series of encounters that are immersive, unexpected, and socially charged.
Social Sculptures brings emerging artists into the heart of the Cultural Precinct, intervening in public space, revealing its capacity for connection, exchange, and wonder.
Social Sculptures brings together temporary, site responsive works developed by QCAD students from across disciplines. Spanning sculpture, installation, light, sound, projection and participatory practice, the project presents diverse approaches to contemporary art in public space.
Familiar objects, overlooked histories and everyday interactions are reconsidered through ideas of connection, memory and impermanence, urbanism, technology, movement and belonging.
Taking Fish Lane as an active material, the artists respond to a place shaped by people, infrastructure, commerce, nature and histories. Together, these works invite us to pause, look again and consider how art might shift our experience of the urban environment.