Victoria Silo Art Trail

Adnate gave these old Graincorp sheep silos, built in 1938, a mighty makeover. The Melbourne-based street and graffiti artist, known for his massive, eye-popping murals uses his talents to tell stories of indigenous people, and where possible he focuses on Aboriginal Australians. He spent a month in the Sheep Hills community getting to know elders before starting this piece. He wanted to show the passing on of wisdom from the older generation to the young, capturing four locals, 'Uncle' Ron Marks from Wergaia, 'Aunty' Regina Hood from Wotjobaluk, with children, Savannah Marks and Curtly McDonald Gadjin.

The drive from Sheep Hills to the next silo at Brim is another 25 minutes, so hit that playlist and get going.

Thanks to this amazing work of art, the whole Silo Art Trail exists. Brim’s silo was the first to appear in Victoria and after it generated lots of positive attention locally and abroad, bringing curious people to the Wimmera Mallee region, the idea got a whole lot bigger.

Created by Guido van Helten, the four silos have a humanist, documentary feel. Helton's a graffiti artist, raised in Brisbane but now living in Lismore, and he wanted to capture the changing times facing rural farmers - both economic and climate. The four farmers stand in contrast to their stark surroundings brilliantly.

Unveiled in 2016, the Brim silo was a finalist in the Sulman Prize that year. The drive from Brim to Rosebery's silo is an easy 20 minutes.

There’s a lot of grit in the Rosebury silo murals. Grit in both the creation and the outcome. Melbourne-based contemporary artist, Kaff-eine, who has painted in various places around the world and is known for her illustrative, often melancholic characters, put in time in the region for not only this silo but the next one in Lascelles, where she assisted Rone.

Kaff-eine spent time in Mallee getting to know local farmers before getting to work. The silo on the left captures the grit and character of the region’s young female farmers, and the silo on the right captures the gritty close connection between a farmer and his horse - essential for anyone working the land.

The next silo is 25 minutes down the road.

Lascelles Silo artist, Rone, is known for his haunting portraits of women’s faces. So it’s a surprise for the Melbourne-based artist to paint a haunting male’s face. But rest assured there’s another haunting female face on the other side.

Rone likes to find the friction point between beauty and decay and that’s also visible in these silos, where, they’re not decaying but look both beautiful and well-weathered at the same time. It's a reflection of the time the local farming couple on the silos, Geoff and Merrilyn Horman, have been in the area - four generations.

Lascelles silos were created in 2017 and the drive to the last, but not least, is 35 minutes.