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Silo art, also known as silo murals, refers to large-scale murals painted directly on to the exterior walls of silos built to store grain, cement or other products.
History
[edit]In 2014, Brazilian artists OSGEMEOS created murals on cement silos on Granville Island, Vancouver, as part of the Vancouver Biennale.[1] In Australia, the first silo art was created in 2015, by HENSE at Northam, Western Australia, in May 2015,[2] and by Guido van Helten at Brim, Victoria,[3][4] in December 2015-January 2016.[5][6] Van Helten's work was a finalist in the Sulman Prize in May 2016.[3] The publicity and tourist visits generated by the murals at Brim led to the commissioning in June 2016 of artworks on five other silos in north-western Victoria.[5] The silos, now decommissioned or little-used, are cylindrical towers standing in pairs or groups of three or more. Most are made of cast concrete; some, such as those at Rupanyup, are made of galvanised steel.[4]
Locations
[edit]Victoria
[edit]Silo art in six towns in Yarriambiack Shire forms a silo art trail in north-western Victoria.[5] Following the mural at Brim, silos at Patchewollock,[6] Sheep Hills,[7] Rosebery,[4] Lascelles and Rupanyup[4] were painted.[5] In 2018, another trail of silo art was created in northern Victoria, in the Benalla local government area, at Devenish, Goorambat and Tungamah.[8]
South Australia
[edit]In February 2017, work commenced on the first silo art in South Australia, at Coonalpyn in the Coorong District.[9] The silo, with five towers, is still in use.[9]
Western Australia
[edit]A group of eight silos at Northam, in Western Australia, was painted in 2015.[10] Silos in Albany were painted in 2018.[11]
Artists
[edit]The first silo art at Brim in Victoria was painted by Brisbane-based artist Guido van Helten,[3][5] who also painted the first silo in South Australia, at Coonalpyn.[9] Fintan Magee painted the Patchewollock silos,[6][12] shortly after painting a silo at Stavanger in Norway.[12][13][14] Matt Adnate painted the Sheep Hills silos,[15] Melbourne-based artist Cam Scale painted the Devenish silos,[8] and Kaff-eine painted the silos at Rosebery.[4] Russian artist Julia Volchkova travelled to Australia to paint the silo at Rupanyup.[4][16] Artists The Yok and Sheryo created the designs for the silos at Albany, WA.[11]
Subjects
[edit]Local farmers are depicted on silos at Brim,[6] Patchewollock,[6] and Rosebery,[4] while at Sheep Hills, the faces of Indigenous people from the Wotjaboluk and Wergaia groups are portrayed against a backdrop of stars in a night sky.[15][7] At Rupanyup, two young people are shown dressed to play netball and football.[4][16] To commemorate the centenary of the last year of World War I, an army nurse from 1918 and a female army medic from 2018 were painted on the silos at Devenish, Victoria.[8]
In Western Australia, the silos at Albany depict a new species of ruby sea dragon, discovered in the waters off Albany in 2015.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "OsGemeos Complete First 360 Mural on Six Giant Concrete Silos". TwistedSifter. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- ^ Butler, Andy (8 May 2015). "HENSE completes giant grain silos mural in western australia". DesignBoom. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- ^ a b c Tsakonas, Athanasios (1 June 2019). "Victoria's Silo Art Trail". Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand. 29 (2): 273–276. doi:10.1080/10331867.2019.1566984. ISSN 1033-1867.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Richards, Tim (5 August 2018). "Grainy pictures gain a following". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. p. 20, Traveller.
- ^ a b c d e "SILO ART GERMINATES INTO A 200KM TRAIL". Herald Sun. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 9 June 2016. p. 17.
- ^ a b c d e Webb, Carolyn (21 October 2016). "Farmer turns model to put his town on the map". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. p. 9.
- ^ a b Hayter, Rachel (27 November 2016). "Stars, Aboriginal elders to watch over tiny farming community". ABC News.
- ^ a b c Webb, Carolyn (24 April 2018). "Silo mural steals a town's heart". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. p. 6.
- ^ a b c Field, Emma (8 March 2017). "SA silos get a face-lift". The Weekly Times. Adelaide, South Australia. p. 68.
- ^ McLennan, Chris (15 June 2016). "Big picture show catches on". The Weekly Times. Adelaide, South Australia. p. 9.
- ^ a b c Cuthbert, Jessica (5 March 2018). "Marine life experience to bring colour to silos". Albany Advertiser. Albany, Western Australia. Retrieved 6 September 2019. Cite error: The named reference "Cuthbert" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b "World-class street artist to paint silo in Patchewollock". ABC Regional News. Australia. 12 October 2016.
- ^ "Fintan Magee in Stavanger, Norway". StreetArtNews. September 14, 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- ^ "Fintan Magee. Nuart 2016". Brooklyn Street Art. September 5, 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- ^ a b Cornish, Richard (2 September 2017). "6 reasons to visit Horsham". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. p. 6, Spectrum.
- ^ a b "Russian street artist Julia Volchkova travels to Rupanyup to add 'a little femininity' to silo art trail". ABC News. Australia. 12 April 2017.