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"In the past few years, an unlikely public-art movement has burst to
life in the outback, giving visitors a reason to travel long hours on
dusty roads to the middle of nowhere—and giving at least some of those
remote towns a reason for hope.
The first painted silo actually preceded the drought when it appeared in
2015, in the Wheatbelt town of Northam. There, in the arid outback of
Western Australia, a cultural nonprofit called FORM recruited two
well-known street artists, Phlegm and HENSE, to paint eight
124-foot-tall silos owned by Australia’s largest grain exporter, a
growers’ cooperative called the CBH Group. What they hoped would be
Australia’s largest outdoor murals—part of an unnamed project aimed at
bringing art to the country’s dusty interior—soon became much more than
that.
The silos were a hit, and became the catalyst for the Public Silo
Trail—a joint project of the CBH Group and FORM that brought
international artists to towns in Western Australia hankering for their
own enhanced silos. The towering artworks that have resulted, visible
for miles around, have been a boon, with visitors spending their time
and money at local pubs and lodgings."
Via Stuart Richman, Paul Ferguson and
mudhooks@pluspora.com.
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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