"Silences on Maps" was an exhibition held at Brickworks, Brisbane in 2023 as a part of the Brisbane Art and Design (BAD) Festival and focused on Brisbane City. Generally, maps are considered visual records of specific historical moments in the city. However, they have often excluded and erased groups, identities, and social issues that are not aligned with the creators of these maps. Geographer J.B. Harley (1988) referred to these instances as "silences on maps". Historical examples of such practices exist in various places worldwide, particularly in Australia, where the proclamation of Terra Nullius erased Aboriginal people, culture, and identity from the map creating a tabula rasa for colonial practices. Countering these practices, scholars and artists used counter-mapping techniques to map marginalised groups in cities, such as refugees, and other underrepresented social and ecological issues. With a particular focus on Brisbane City and influenced by the mapping works of author David Maalouf (1985) and architect Kevin O'Brien (2006), this project proposes to make and exhibit new mappings of the city using architectural and artistic mapping methods.

Based on in-depth research on the architectural history of Brisbane’s demolitions in the 70s and 80s and the bordering practices of refugee resettlement within Brisbane and Logan regions, the exhibition aims to unearth unseen or hidden stories of the city to provide a novel way of documenting it while fostering community engagement through site visits and the exhibit and presenting new perspectives on the city's culture.