Pink Bunny

Pink bunnies first appeared at the Brisbane Festival in 2014, at various inner-city locations. After the festival, a bunny was donated to the hospital and has guarded the entrance ever since.

The 4 metre tall sculptures relate to characters that appear and reappear in the artist’s practice. They don’t have faces so people are free to project their own thoughts and feelings onto the artwork.

For the artist, Brisbane itself is a bit like a rabbit warren, divided into zones by the meandering river. He describes Brisbane as so many different things, “really old buildings and new buildings, older people and younger people, beautiful Queenslander homes and big, gleaming skyscrapers; suburbs with apartment blocks and just up the road you are surrounded by bushland.”

Fibreglass and acrylic paint