silo art - Juddy Roller - Street Art Australia

Category: silo art

11
Jun

Horsham Silo

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It has been an honour to have worked alongside artist @smugone and the Horsham Rural City Council on this project titled The Yangga Dyata which means ‘Walking on Country’. The Silo art located on Wawunna Rd and Hazel St in Horsham, pays tribute to Yanggendyinanyuk a Wotjobaluk warrior, whose strength and resilience inspires generations to come. Yanggendyinanyuk was famously known for exceptional tracking skills, helping to locate the Cooper-Duff children from the “Lost in the Bush” story, who had been lost for 9 days in the Wimmera Scrub. He was also known for his role in the first Indigenous cricket tour to England and witnessed a great loss of clan and Country.A Gamaty, meaning ‘Black Cockatoo’ was his totem and stands proud alongside the completed Silo works. A large thank you to the Barengi Gadgin Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, Aunty Jenni and the Plazzer Family for their support in this project.

For more information about Yanggendyinanyuk see the link below:

https://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/yanggendyinanyuk-30059

 

11
Jun

Bute Silo

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It was an honour to have worked alongside artist Scott Nagy @scottnagyartist and Janne Birkner @krimsone and the Barunga West Councill on this project. The Silo art located in the town of Bute, South Australia. The artwork concept was based on representing women in regional areas, through telling the story of a girl pushing a vintage bike alongside the train tracks (like the ones that run alongside the silo). The theme requested by the community was bright colours, and local agriculture, flora and fauna. This has been represented through the use of the Rooster as well as Sheep, which is a prominent agricultural aspect of Bute.The rooster is also the mascot for the Bute football, netball, basketball, cricket and tennis club.The birds around her are Rainbow Bee-eaters, which are seasonal breeding migrants to South Australia. As well as a Superb Fairy Wren.The background entails the Hummocks which are a range of hills in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges extending north from the eastern edge of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. The old stone shed is accurate to the area / time period. Special thanks to Barunga West Council Mayor Leonie Kerley & Grants and Investment Coordinator Bridget Johns and the community of Bute for making this happen!

26
Mar

Brim Silo Art Trail

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The Brim Silo project involved creating an artwork on a set of towering 30 meter high, decommissioned grain silos in the Wimmera region of Victoria. The mural aims to uncover the essence of the many social issues in regional towns across Australia. These issues include population decline due to the use of new farming technology and heavy drought conditions resulting in an uncertain future for many farming towns located in isolated areas of Australia.

Drawing from these issues the work captures the generational differences of those resilient enough to continue working the land, by representing a broad spectrum of the Brim Community portrayed in the archetypal form of different generations of the community, including an acknowledgement of the importance of female contribution to farming the land.

Aesthetically the artwork aims to convey the strong sense of community spirit discovered by Guido while spending time in Brim. The work fuses the different elements of farming life into the monumental structure of the now disused grain silo, which in itself is a historical symbol of the changing landscape of the Wimmera.