Lameroo in South Australia has been the lucky latest town to have a painted silo added to the growing trail to discover as you travel around Australia. The silos which are easily found as you drive through the main street of town, were painted by the artist Sam ‘Smug’ Bates, a master of hyper realism… Read More Lameroo Silo Art
The town of Walpeup on the Mallee Highway in the north west of Victoria is one of those that is easy to blink and miss as you pass through, but keep it in mind as a rest stop in your travels and like a lot of rural locations in Australia, you’ll be surprised with what… Read More Lest We Forget – Walpeup Silo Art
The latest of the painted silo art in South Australia is in the northern Yorke Peninsula town of Bute. It takes a little under two hours to get there from Adelaide and the silo art is on Martin Road, next to the disused railway line. The artists responsible for this one are Scott Nagy and… Read More A Bute-iful painted silo in South Australia
On a quest to find new silo art in South Australia I’ve managed to track down two more outstanding examples of this grand scale art. Farrell Flat The first is in the town of Farrell Flat, a little under 150 kilometres north of Adelaide in the Clare Valley region. The brilliantly coloured mural was completed… Read More Farrell Flat and Eudunda Silo Art
I’m gradually getting around to visiting as many painted silos and water towers around the country as I can, and added to that are the many, many brilliant examples of street art and murals in towns across Australia. Here are a few of the incredible silos to look for as you travel in South Australia.
On our tour around Eyre Peninsula we took a detour to make sure we didn’t miss illuminate Tumby, before resuming our itinerary back on the other side of the peninsula’s coast. Tumby Bay had so much going for it that we were definitely stopping in again on our way back, to see more of what… Read More Tumby Bay ~ So Nice, We Visited Twice
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