Sketching in the Gallery Precinct Kurilpa Point.

Awesome morning with the Brisbane City Sketchers..
I sat on a rock wall on the riverside outside the State library Qld to sketch the Brisbane City Library Buildings. I have drawn them before, always a pleasure..
8" x 7.5" handmade sketchbook graphite watercolour and pen (in that order)

Kurilpa means "place for water rats", in the aboriginal language, Kurilpa Point was once inhabited by the Turrbal peoples to whom water rats were a food source.
The Turrbal are an Australian Aboriginal nation, descendants of the original owners and custodians of the region of present-day Brisbane, Queensland. They have lived in Australia for over 60,000 years. The name primarily referred to the dialect they spoke, the tribe itself being alternatively called Mianjin/Meanjin. The Turrbal are regarded as interchangeable with the Jagera

 
The Turrbal were Jagera people whose traditional lands and hunting grounds, extended over some 1,300 square miles (3,400 km2) and lay around the Brisbane River, stretching from the Cleveland shore area of Moreton Bay, and running inland as far as the Great Dividing Range about Gatton; north to near Esk.

 
The Turrbal horde itself was located specifically in what is now called the Brisbane CBD, the name for which was Mianjin.

 
Neighboring Aboriginal nations include the Kabi and Wakka Wakka to the north, the Dalla to the northwest and the Ngugi of Moreton Island. Despite collective title to a stretch of land, the Turrbal like many tribes permitted private ownership of specific sections of land, down to recognizing personal possession of parts of a river or even of trees and shrubs.