A bright, playful traffic signal box at the corner of Oxley Road and Clewley Street in Corinda is inviting passers-by to think about the people they love, placed deliberately near a school by the First Nations artist who painted it.
Immogyn Jones designed the box with its location in mind, creating a work that speaks directly to the students, parents and commuters who pass through that intersection every day.
The idea behind the box
Jones is a multidisciplinary Brisbane artist with Dalungbarra heritage from Rainbow Beach and K’gari, working across music, prose and visual arts.
Her practice balances deeply personal work rooted in cultural identity with what she describes as the cute and silly side of creativity, and Box of Friends sits firmly in that second territory.
“This art is about how different people can be, but they still get along anyway,” Jones said. “If everyone was the same, wouldn’t it be a boring world? It is meant to be bright and colourful so it will grab people’s attention and stand out.”
The work was produced in March 2026 with additional participation from Sean Visser, and carries the Artforce Brisbane box ID B0513.
Colour as conversation
Jones wanted the box to do more than brighten a street corner. She designed it to prompt a specific kind of reflection: to make people stop, look at the mismatched, wonderfully different characters on the box, and think about the equally mismatched, wonderfully different people in their own lives.
“This is also meant to make people think about their own friends and family and how different they all are but how much you love all of them,” she said.
The work sits alongside Jones’s broader practice, which includes collage and printmaking sold through Corvine Art in Brisbane, as well as participation in group exhibitions. Viewers can follow her work on Instagram.
About Artforce Brisbane
Artforce Brisbane is a programme that invites Brisbane residents to paint traffic signal boxes across the city, turning a piece of street infrastructure into a public gallery that runs from suburb to suburb.
Artists are selected through a registration process and must be Brisbane residents. Each box carries the artist’s name and a unique ID that links to the full artwork listing on the Artforce Brisbane website.
Box of Friends is located at the corner of Oxley Road and Clewley Street, Corinda. The full listing, including photographs of the completed work, is available here.
Published 2-July-2026
