Banyo station is about to get another striking new feature, with two large-scale murals bringing the colours and landscapes of the surrounding area onto its platforms.
Artists Aurora Campbell and Rick Hayward have been selected to create one mural each following community feedback on proposed designs. Queensland Rail announced on 3 September that painting would begin soon.
The artwork follows a major transformation of the station itself. Banyo reopened in May 2025 after an accessibility upgrade that delivered raised platforms, lifts, a new footbridge and other improvements.
This time, the change is visual.
Boondall Wetlands Come to the Platform
Campbell’s mural draws directly on the nearby Boondall Wetlands, using native plants, waterways and snakeskin patterns in a dense composition of greens, blues and bright pink.
Rather than reproducing the wetlands literally, her design captures their character through overlapping vegetation and flowing water. It has also been conceived with two audiences in mind: passengers seeing it from a moving train and those with time to notice the finer details while waiting on the platform.
Campbell is an Australian mural artist and illustrator whose large-scale work frequently incorporates botanical and organic imagery. Her public-art portfolio includes projects at Brisbane Airport and Queen Street Mall, along with street-art festivals in Darwin, Benalla and Greece.
Banyo will not be her first railway project. She completed a mural at Auchenflower train station in 2024.
A Different View of the Same Landscape
Hayward’s mural takes the same local environment in a distinctly different direction.
His abstract design combines geometric and botanical forms inspired by four ecosystems around the Boondall Wetlands: Swamp She Oak Open Forest, Saltpan Vegetation, Mangrove Shrubland and Swamp Paperbark Forest.
Hayward is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist, maker and former signwriter whose work spans typography, geometric abstraction and public art. He won the Wootha Prize in 2024 and has previously completed Queensland Rail commissions at South Bank and Eagle Junction, with Bowen Hills also among his rail projects.
The two murals will give passengers very different interpretations of the landscape around Banyo: Campbell’s detailed subtropical world on one platform and Hayward’s abstract treatment of the wetlands’ ecosystems on the other.
Another Change for Banyo Station
Their arrival follows an extensive rebuild of Banyo station, which closed in January 2024 and reopened to passengers on 26 May 2025.
The upgrade delivered full-length high-level platforms, lift access, accessible toilets and parking, improved lighting and security, new signage, bicycle storage and extended platform shelters.
The murals will now put a local stamp on that rebuilt setting, with both designs looking beyond the railway corridor to one of north Brisbane’s best-known natural environments.
Queensland Rail has not announced a completion date for the artwork.
Published 8-September-2026
