Silo Art Trail - Victoria
- Carmen Friend
- Mar 29, 2018
- 2 min read
The Silo Art Trail in Victoria is 200km long and is the largest outdoor gallery in Australia. The portraits were painted by world renowned Australian Mural Artists - Asante, Kaff-eine, Fintan Magee, Robe, Guido van Helton and Russian street artist Julia Volchkova.
The art celebrates regional Australia. The decommissioned silos were strategically selected to get visitors to a variety of rural communities in the Wimnera Mallee Area.
The silos were once used to store grain but changes to storage has changed over the years.
Patchewollock - Fintan Magee - Brisbane street artist - painted these silos in 2016. Local farmer ‘Noodle Hulland’ was selected as he was slim and had a typical farmer characteristics.
Lascelles - street artist Rone painted local couple Geoff and Merrilyn Horman. Their families have lived and worked on the local land for 4 generations.
Roseberry - Kaff-eine painted the silos in 2017. She spent time in the local community acquainting herself with the people, business, families, farmers and also neighboring towns.
One of the silos she captures the regions female farmer - a young women preparing to take over a family farm and looking into the future. On the other, the people’s reliance on animals and their relationship.
Brim - Guido van Helton generates the Silo Art Trail back in 2015 when he painted the mural of the farming community of Wimmera and Mallee region.
Sheep Hills - Asante completes this art work in 2016. 4 indigenous faces featuring a starry background has a symbolic significance to local people.
Rupanyup - completed by Russian Artist Julia Volchkova. 2 local children representing the Panthers netball and football clubs.
Each silo has its own significance to the community. For us, the silo with the indigenous faces was the most breathtaking and really drew you in.
There are many other silos across Australia that have artwork on them, all started from this silo trail. It really is an awesome way of getting travelers into the small communities which were once thriving but are now falling away due to changes in the farming industry, drought, income and the young ones moving away from taking over the family farm.
There is nothing better then visiting a rural community and trying to make a purchase - be it small or large to try and keep them going.
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