Street artists transform silos into works of art to revive Australia's most desolate areas

Australian street artists who transform silos into real works of art, helping to enhance the territory.

In rural Australia, life is not easy at all, also because the drought, especially in recent years, has knocked down local farmers. Many of them have had to abandon their companies, no longer having to live and entire cities have found themselves on the pavement. But sometimes crisis situations can turn into opportunities for rebirth.

And so, in Thallon, an Australian city in Queensland, which, like many others, was in danger of disappearing into thin air, the community decided to focus on art. In 2017 two street artists named Joel Fergie and Travis Vinson, from Brisbane, were involved in the creation of a gigantic work of art on four very high silos, entitled "The Watering Hole", where the protagonists are huge local birds and farm animals. , immortalized at sunset.

Fergie and Vinson used 500 cans of spray paint to finish the decoration and it took a total of 21 days. An enormous work that has however paid off. Not only in terms of beauty, the work is truly stunning, but also from a commercial point of view. In addition to being named Best Public Artwork at the 2019 Australian Street Art Awards, it has begun to attract more and more tourists to this otherwise desolate city. A real lifeline.

Street artists transform silos into works of art to revive Australia's most desolate areas

©Joel Fergie and Travis Vinson

In fact, the work of the two street artists is not the only one of its kind in Australia, although it is one of the 30 largest painted on silos. Other artists have been involved over time to enhance forgotten places, drawing elements from the reality of the place.

Meanwhile, Annette and Eric Green, who are passionate about this art form, have even decided to open a fb page entirely dedicated toart sui silos, called "Silo Art Trail", where they help other curious a reach the most beautiful silos in Australia. These are crazy works that now attract many visitors. Here are some of the most beautiful.

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I silos the Guido van Helten a Brim

Artist Guido van Helten painted these four silos in early 2016, and depicted 4 farmers, including a woman, who exemplify the strength and resilience of the local farming community. The work is located in Brim, on the banks of Yarriambiack Creek, in the Victoria region.

Six Stages of Banksia baxteri di Amok Island a Ravensthorpe

It took the artist Amok Island 31 days to complete this wonderful mural and used 338 liters of paint to do it. The protagonist images are inspired by the local flora and fauna, and each side of the 3 painted silos shows a different stage of the banksia flowering.