What a wonderful morning, sketching at the University of Queensland.
In 1927, the land on which the St Lucia campus is built was resumed by the Brisbane City Council using money donated by James O'Neil Mayne and his sister Mary Emelia Mayne to replace the less spacious city campus. The city campus is now home to the Gardens Point campus of the Queensland University of Technology. Construction of the new university at St Lucia began in 1937, and at its centre is the heritage-listed Great Court – a 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) open area surrounded by Helidon sandstone buildings with grotesques of great academics and historic scenes, floral and faunal motifs and crests of universities and colleges from around the world.
The University of Queensland is proud of their of their fauna. They have over 6000 trees on campus, and early this month hundreds of volunteers turned out to turn sod, planting more than 5000 trees on the banks of the Brisbane River, with plans top plant another 5000 in coming months.
The jacarandas are all out in full bloom. We chose one of the smaller lakes to sit and sketch by, and I chose jacaranda lane.
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