Silo art
Brim, Victoria. ABC1 Weather
Brisbane street artist, Guido Van Helten, painted these four characters on the old wheat silos near the small village of Brim in Victoria's Wimmera region. They stand nearly 30 metres tall and represent characters found in such farming communities. They have become a real tourist attraction in the region with Aboriginal people represented on the silos at nearby Sheep Hills and a local farmer on a silo at Patchewollock to the north. The local shire, the Shire of Yarriambiack, has two more silo art projects planned at Rupanyup and Lascelles. All in all these will be a significant tourist attraction to a part of rural Australia that has seen hard times in recent years with drought and the vagaries of wheat and wool prices. For some more background on this project, go to: www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-07/brim-grain-silos-guido-van...
Silo art
Brim, Victoria. ABC1 Weather
Brisbane street artist, Guido Van Helten, painted these four characters on the old wheat silos near the small village of Brim in Victoria's Wimmera region. They stand nearly 30 metres tall and represent characters found in such farming communities. They have become a real tourist attraction in the region with Aboriginal people represented on the silos at nearby Sheep Hills and a local farmer on a silo at Patchewollock to the north. The local shire, the Shire of Yarriambiack, has two more silo art projects planned at Rupanyup and Lascelles. All in all these will be a significant tourist attraction to a part of rural Australia that has seen hard times in recent years with drought and the vagaries of wheat and wool prices. For some more background on this project, go to: www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-07/brim-grain-silos-guido-van...