Silo Art

The Wimmera-Mallee Silo Art Trail is Australia’s largest outdoor gallery. The trail stretches over 200 kilometres, linking Rupanyup, Sheep Hills, Brim, Rosebery, Patchewollock, Sea Lake and Nullawil. There has recently been a silo added in St Arnaud, which could also be considered part of this trail. Providing an insight into the true spirit of the Wimmera Mallee, the trail recognizes and celebrates the region’s people through a series of large-scale mural portraits painted onto grain silos, many of which date back to the 1930s.
The Wimmera Mallee Silo Art Trail was conceived in 2016 after the success of the first silo artwork in Brim. What started as a small community project by the Brim Active Community Group, GrainCorp, Juddy Roller and artist, Guido van Helten resulted in widespread international media attention and an influx of visitors to the region, and the idea for a trail was born. The trail was created as a partnership between Yarriambiack Shire Council, international street art agency, Juddy Roller, the Victorian Government, the Australian Government and GrainCorp who donated their silos as canvases for the artists’ work.
The project saw a team of renowned artists from Australia and across the world visit the region, meet the locals and transform the silos into an epic works of art; each one telling a unique story about the host town.
Since then, the North East (Benalla) Silo has been developed, and other silo art has appeared in various wheat growing farming areas and is continuing, not only in Victoria, but in South Australia, Western Australia, New South Wales and across the border into southern Queensland, and in the warmer northern areas of the country water towers have appeared, which is another story.
This has encouraged many of us to get out into the farming communities and view these impressive works of art, thus supporting small communities along the way.