Sculpture - Stone carving and bronze, Simon Perry, Monument to Free Speech, 1994

Historical information

Located outside Mechanics Institute, Brunswick. Materials include stone carving with bronze additions. The Free Speech memorial was built to commemorate the free speech fights by workers and the unemployed in the area in the 1930s and in particular, a young artist, Noel Counihan, who defied the police by speaking from a locked cage on a cart chained to a balustrade.

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