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Designed by public artist Jamie Maclean in 2004, the Cloudland Memorial Arch commemorates the Cloudland Ballroom - a popular entertaiment venue - which stood on the site of the present Cloudland Apartments in Bowen Hills. CAS was contacted by Blue Sky View, Brisbane City Council's Public Art maintenance managers, to provide a full refurbishment of the paving, structural painting and interpretive panels for the memorial artwork. Now, Cloudland Memorial Arch can continue to tell the story of Cloudland’s 42-year history - from being an American Army Base in WW2 - a popular dance and concert venue from jitterbugging to the punk era - and the shock of its sudden overnight demolition in 1982.
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These three carved totems by artist Jamie Maclean, featuring local fauna and flora of the Sandgate/Shorncliffe area, were originally set to the back of the Lower Moora Park Playground in Sandgate Brisbane in 2007. Due to water damage and playground restructuring they were removed from their original location in 2023, and once restored by CAS were mounted onto new steel stirrups and re-installed at the entry points of the refurbished playground in May 2024.
This 30 year-old carving of a Waterdragon was originally situated at the edge of bush-land in Stringybark Park Brisbane. The original carving (artist unknown), made from one cypress log, had become weathered over the years with much loss of detail. The restoration by CAS involved stripping the artwork back to solid wood, re-creating the head, legs and feet and completing the surface finish. The Waterdragon was re-installed (upright to protect its condition) in March 2024 - next to a restored tree-frog and carpet snake by the same unknown artist completed by CAS in 2022.
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January 2026
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