You simply have to see these amazing artworks in person to appreciate the mammoth skill.
Day 1 – Wednesday 24th March '21 Horsham (D)
Cardwell’s Coach Travel welcomes you aboard for an
informative and interesting Silo Art Trail tour. Today we travel west to Boort where we stop for morning tea and
a delightful visit to The Spanner Man. John
Piccoli welds giant sculptures out of spanners — earning him the nickname the
Spanner Man. His garden is littered with dozens of larger-than-life sculptures
of mermaids, marlin, and even a full-size horse and wagon. He has created more
than a 100 sculptures — using more than a 100,000 spanners so far. We depart
Boort and travel via Charlton and Donald – the Heart of Victoria for
lunch. Following lunch we travel via Boolite
to the Sheep Hill’s Silo Art.
The faces of two Wimmera children will be forever painted in history as part of
the Silo Art Trail. Horsham’s Curtly McDonald, 9, and Savannah Marks, 2,
feature on the now completed silos at Sheep Hills. International artist Adnate
painted the Indigenous-themed mural, which represents the passing of knowledge
from generation to generation. Truly a sight to behold. We then travel on via Minyip to Rupanyup’s Silo Art. The east Wimmera township of Rupanyup has
taken a profound step into the international world of art with its silo art
display for Yarriambiack Shire’s Silo Art Trail.
We enjoy afternoon tea here before going to Murtoa to visit the Stick
Silo Shed. We then head to Horsham with time to relax and unwind
at our overnight accommodation at the Best Westlander Motor
Inn.
Day 2 – Thursday 25th March '21 Horsham-Home (B)
Following
breakfast we depart Horsham. It’s a great start to the morning as we travel via
Warracknabeal to Brim Silo Art. Guido Van Helten captured the
imagination of Australia in December 2015 when he undertook a gigantic painting
on the Brim Silos. The Brim Silo Art generated
inspiration for the Silo Art Trail and Guido's mural will remain an iconic
tribute to the farming communities of the Wimmera and Mallee region. We then
visit the Silo Art at Roseberry,
artist Katie Kaff-eine started this project in August 2017 and is the most
recent addition to the Silo Art Trail. We then travel on to Hopetoun to view Lake Lascelles and the Mallee
Bush Retreat. It’s here we enjoy a morning cuppa. Following morning tea we
travel to Patchewollock to view the Patchewollock Silo Art. The silo in
Patchewollock, painted by street artist Fintan Magee, depicted local, Nick
“Noodle” Hulland. Hulland, a local sheep and grain farmer has lived in
Patchewollock his entire life. After meeting the local, Magee chose to depict
him due his connection to the agricultural aspects of the region, his heritage and
standing in the community. Lascelles Silo Art is our next stop on tour. The more than 30 metre high, photorealistic art
at Lascelles is a little different from the other art projects on the stunning
silo art trail of the Wimmera-Mallee (Brim, Patchewollock, Sheep Hills, Rupanyup and
Rosebery) as it features art on two sides of the silo.We journey on to
view Lake Tyrrell which was formed as a result of
the innundation of the Murray-Darling Basin through sea level rise and its
subsequent retreat; the present landscape and soils were formed as a result of this process. The lake itself is quite
ancient and may have been formed by drifting sand blocking the passage of
Tyrrell Creek. Over time it became a giant salt basin due to the flow of subterranean saline water and the
run-off from Tyrrell Creek. We enjoy a lunch break and
then start our return via Nullawil Silo to Boort for afternoon tea. Then
it’s on to home, taking with us new knowledge and interesting memories.