Brim Silo Art Project
Curated by Juddy Roller, the Brim Silo Art project was painted on the façade of 6 towering 30 metre high, decommissioned grain silos in the Wimmera region of Victoria and attracted extensive national (and international) attention.
In the process it helped to uncover the essence of the many social issues affecting small regional towns. These include population decline due to the use of new farming technology and heavy drought conditions resulting in an uncertain future for many isolated farming towns located in rural areas of Australia.
For this project, Guido undertook a documentary based photographic study of the life and community in Brim. This can be considered an archetypal case study representative of the broad spectrum of social issues faced by regional small towns in Australia.
Drawing from these issues the work captures the generational differences and resilience of those who have continued to work the land. The artist chose to by represent a broad spectrum of the Brim Community by portraying in archetypal form the different generations of the community, including an acknowledgment of the importance of the female contribution to farming the land.
Aesthetically the artwork aims to convey the strong sense of community spirit revealed to Guido while spending time with local community members. The work fuses the different elements of farming life into the monumental structure of the now disused grain silo, which in itself is a historical symbol of the changing landscape of the Wimmera.
Video by - Round 3 Creative
Artist - Guido Van Helton
Produced by – Juddy Roller
Presenting Partners - Brim Active Community Group, GrainCorp, Regional Arts Victoria, Taubmans, Loop Colours.
Brim Silo Art - Finalist Tourism and Attractions Category 2016
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Brim - The Silo Art Trail
A few quick clips at the Brim silos - some very impressive art work, I'm glad that I visited..
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Brim Silo Art
The Brim silos were the first ones painted in the silo art trail of North Western Victoria, Australia! Four locals appear on the front, facing the Henty Highway. Apparently these silos are disused, rather silly when you see the multiple small silos on the farm immediately behind. Progress (?) has also seen the rail system neglected and not used, in favour of road transport of grain, which destroys the roads and makes the roads less safe.
Brim Silos, Brim Victoria - Mural by Guido Van Helten
Visitors are driving for hours to see a giant mural on disused wheat silos overlooking the tiny, drought-stricken Wimmera community of Brim.
Guido Van Helten, from Brisbane, has slaved in a super cherrypicker for three weeks, including Christmas Day and New Year's Day, to create the work using spray paint and acrylic house paint.
He has worked for up to 10 hours a day in frequent 40-degree heat and strong winds to produce the mural.
Brim Grain Silo 7 News Melbourne
SILO ART TRAIL (Part 1), Rupanyup - Sheep Hills - Brim, NW Rural Victoria, Australia
SILO ART TRAIL (Part 1), Rupanyup - Sheep Hills - Brim, NW Rural Victoria, Australia. c.2018 DAVA Photography, Adelaide, South Australia.
Silo Art Trail, Victoria, Australia
The Silo Art Trail celebrates regional Australia in a modern and accessible artistic context. The silos have been strategically selected for maximum visual impact and to ensure visitors have the opportunity to engage with multiple communities and outback tourism destinations in the Wimmera and Mallee region.
Historically, silos are a place for the farming communities to come together during harvest, exchange news and stories and re-connect with old friends while the grain is unloaded. Of late, changes in the agricultural industry have led to many communities losing active silo sites. The Silo Art Trail has provided an opportunity to reinvigorate decommissioned sites and celebrate local communities and farming history.
Brim
Guido Van Helten captured the imagination of Australia in December 2015 when he undertook a gigantic painting on the Brim Silos. The Brim Silo Art generated inspiration for the Silo Art Trail and Guido's mural will remain an iconic tribute to the farming communities of the Wimmera and Mallee region.
Rupanyup
Russian Artist Julia Volchkova is actively involved in the graffiti and street art movement in the places she travels and is currently undertaking the huge metal grain storage bins in Rupanyup as part of the Silo Art Trail. Julia's work focuses on portraits and the Rupanyup Silo Art mural is inspired by the Rupanyup Panthers Football & Netball Club.
Sheep Hills
Adnate is an internationally renowned street artist, famous for his work with Aboriginal communities across Australia and completed the mural in December 2016. The four indigenous faces now watch over the tiny community of Sheep Hills and the starry background of the towering portraits has symbolic significance to the local people.
Another 3 are due and we shall return once all complete.
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Australian Silo Art Trail
Australian Silo Art Trail is supporting the 25 Australian Painted Silos completed as of December 2018. Let's gets behind these communities, get out there and visit their towns and share this video around the world with the aim to attract Australians and overseas tourists to our new mega outdoor art gallery.
Australian Silo Art Trail
As of May 19, 2018 there are 20 painted silos across Australia. With their growing popularity, I'm sure there will be more in the very near future.
Amazing farm silo artwork in Victoria, Australia
Brim silos, in the Wimmera in Western Victoria, featuring artwork by Brisbane artist Guido van Helten. We were lucky emough to be travelling through Western Victoria when the finishing touches were being placed to his stunning piece of art.
Silo art trail 2019
Victorian silo art trail 2019, all 6 silos.
The Silo Art Trail
The Silo Art Trail is Australia’s largest outdoor gallery. The trail stretches over 200 kilometres, linking Brim with neighbouring towns Lascelles, Patchewollock, Rosebery, Rupanyup and Sheep Hills.
Providing an insight into the true spirit of the Wimmera Mallee, the trail recognises 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 project saw Juddy Roller team up with 6 renowned artists from Australia and across the world visit the region, meet the locals and transform each grain silo into an epic work of art; each one telling a unique story about the host town.
The 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 Silo Art Trail was created as a partnership between Yarriambiack Shire Council, international street art agency Juddy Roller, Victorian Government, Australian Government and GrainCorp, who donated the silos as canvases for the artists’ work.
Thanks to Round 3 Creative for capturing this amazing project as well as LIXXXTRADO for the track!
BRIM Lakeside Park Victoria Australia
Situated at Giddings Street in Brim Victoria along the route of the Silo art trail is the lakeside caravan park. The video is a overview to the facilities and surrounding parking area.
Silo Art Trail, Outback Australian Country Towns, Lake Tyrell Salt Lake, Painted Aussie Silos - OFMD
You’ve just got to do this trip.
It’s capable of being done in two days from Melbourne and probably the same from Adelaide.
The trip is through the Wimmera Mallee region of Australia and takes in the famous Salt Lakes plus the well travelled Victorian Silo Trail.
Now, it can be done in a single weekend, but better still, take a few days, and you will start to develop a deeper appreciation of the wonders of outback country Australia.
Check Google for plenty of sunset type pics at Lake Tyrell
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Silo Art Trail, Vic Mar/18
This video is about Silo Art Trail, Vic Mar/18, Rupanyup, Sheep Hills, Brim, Roseberry, Lascelles, Patchewollock, silos, grain silos, art, painted silos
Joe Bond LIve- Brim Silo Art Trail, Vic
Public Silo Trail Pingrup
Watch Miami street artist Evoca1 create a 25 metre high mural on giant grain silos in the Western Australian farming town of Pingrup as part of FORM and CBH Group's PUBLIC Silo Trail.
Find out more at publicsilotrail.com . Film by Peacock Visuals
Paint the Polytechnic - Sofles, Guido Van Helten and Reka
Video by Round 3 Creative.
Drone footage courtesy of Glenn Snashall
Leading mural artists Sofles, Guido Van Helten and Reka teamed up to transform Melbourne Polytechnic’s Prahran Campus with epic large scale murals on on 3 seven storey walls.
Beginning December 2016 and produced and curated by leading street artist management agency Juddy Roller, the Paint The Polytechnic project saw world-class Australian and international street artists deepen Melbourne Polytechnic's cultural legacy of public art with many new must-see art installations.
Funded by Melbourne Polytechnic and Stonnington Council
Equipment and paint support by Taubmans and Wagner Australia