ART and ag might not seem like natural cousins – but when they combine they bring about amazing results.
This year has seen the painting of silos across the country – and even a freight train carriage or too.
Here are some of the highlights of that work:
International street artist Guido van Helten painted a 30 metre by 30m scene on decommissioned GrainCorp silos at Brim, Victoria.
The artwork took him three weeks and depicts Brim residents – three men and one woman.
Artist Fintan Magee painted farmer Nick Hulland’s portrait on the side of a wheat silo in his home town of Patchewollock, in the Mallee region of Victoria.
The 35 metre high mural is part of a new Silo Art Trail in which six small towns in Yarriambiack shire will have locals' images painted on silos.
International artist Adnate has been painting another GrainCorp silo at Sheep Hills, Victoria, as part of the Yarriambiack Shire Silo Art Trail.
The giant mural is dedicated to Indigenous culture and features Wimmera Elders Ron Marks and Regina Hood, along with a young boy and a young girl.
The design was created in a partnership between Adnate and the Barengi Gadlin Land Council.
And now the artist that started it all at Brim – has moved north of the border into the tiny Central Western NSW town of Manildra.
Just this week Guido van Helten spray-painted the faces of Manildra’s local heroes – mill diesel mechanics and train drivers, farmers and artists – on the sides of rail wagons owned by the Manildra Group.
The wagons were then filled with flour and hitched to a train headed for Bomaderry, where the flour will be processed further.