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Silo art, also known as silo murals, refers to large-scale murals painted directly on to the exterior walls of silos built to store grain, cement or other products.

History
In 2014, Brazilian artists OSGEMEOS created murals on cement silos on Granville Island, Vancouver, as part of the Vancouver Biennale. In Australia, the first silo art was created in 2015, by HENSE at Northam, Western Australia, in May 2015, and by Guido van Helten at Brim, Victoria, in December 2015-January 2016. Van Helten's work was a finalist in the Sulman Prize in May 2016. The publicity and tourist visits generated by the murals at Brim led to the commissioning in June 2016 of artworks on five other silos in north-western Victoria. The silos, now decommissioned or little-used, are cylindrical towers standing in pairs or groups of three or more. Most are made of cast concrete; some, such as those at Rupanyup, are made of galvanised steel.

Victoria
Silo art in six towns in Yarriambiack Shire forms a silo art trail in north-western Victoria. Following the mural at Brim, silos at Patchewollock, Sheep Hills, Rosebery, Lascelles and Rupanyup were painted. In 2018, another trail of silo art was created in northern Victoria, in the Benalla local government area, at Devenish, Goorambat and Tungamah.

South Australia
In February 2017, work commenced on the first silo art in South Australia, at Coonalpyn in the Coorong District. The silo, with five towers, is still in use.

Western Australia
A group of eight silos at Northam, in Western Australia, was painted in 2015. Silos in Albany were painted in 2018.

Artists
The first silo art at Brim in Victoria was painted by Brisbane-based artist Guido van Helten, who also painted the first silo in South Australia, at Coonalpyn. Fintan Magee painted the Patchewollock silos, shortly after painting a silo at Stavanger in Norway. Matt Adnate painted the Sheep Hills silos, Melbourne-based artist Cam Scale painted the Devenish silos, and Kaff-eine painted the silos at Rosebery. Russian artist Julia Volchkova travelled to Australia to paint the silo at Rupanyup. Artists The Yok and Sheryo created the designs for the silos at Albany, WA.

Subjects
Local farmers are depicted on silos at Brim, Patchewollock, and Rosebery, while at Sheep Hills, the faces of Indigenous people from the Wotjaboluk and Wergaia groups are portrayed against a backdrop of stars in a night sky. At Rupanyup, two young people are shown dressed to play netball and football. To commemorate the centenary of the last year of World War I, an army nurse from 1918 and a female army medic from 2018 were painted on the silos at Devenish, Victoria.

In Western Australia, the silos at Albany depict a new species of ruby sea dragon, discovered in the waters off Albany in 2015.