Artists impression of the silos before they were painted.
The Australian Silo Art Trail have released a wall calendar for 2022 with our very own Murrumburrah silos featuring on the May page of the calendar.
The Murrumburrah Silos feature alongside 12 other silos painted in silo art across the country.
The Australian Silo Art Trial website opened up submissions for entry in early February of this year with nomination forms posted on the Australian Silo Art Website and letters also sent out to the painted silo communities.
Communities then filled out the paperwork, found suitable photographs, got the necessary approvals and sent the paperwork to the Australian Silo Art Trail for consideration.
Out of the 42 silos that were completed at the time, only 14 nominated for the 2022 calendar.
There were a number of entries submitted of silos across Australia with Keith Ward’s photograph (not pictured) selected to go inside the calendar.
50 per cent of the profits from the Australian Silo Art 2022 calendar will be returned to all of the communities featuring in the calendar.
This is the second year Annette and Eric Green, the founders of the Australian Silo Art Trail website and Facebook page, have released the Australian Silo Art Trail Calendar.
With the inaugural 2021 Silo Art Calendar, The Australian Silo Art Trial raised $60,134 to give back to 14 communities featured in the calendar.
The Silo Art Trial stretches from Queensland into New South Wales down through Victoria, across to South Australia through to Western Australia and features 49 silos.
Annette and Eric Green are “dedicated promoters of the Australian Silo Art Trail.”
“The aim of the website and Facebook page is to bring a national awareness to all Australians and future international travellers about the largest outdoor gallery in the world.” Annette and Eric state on the website.
“It’s here to help bring visitors to towns in regional Australia, to encourage people to travel to places they have never heard of before and most importantly to help support our struggling drought affected communities.”
Since starting the website and Facebook page in September 2018, the Australian Silo Art Trail now has over 53,000 followers and an additional 119,000 members who share photos from their travels to the Silo Art on the Australian Silo Art Trail Group on Facebook.
The Silo Art Trail started in Western Australia by FORM WA, a non-profit and cultural organisation, who painted the CBH Group grain silos in Northam Western Australia.
Calendars can be purchased by visiting the Australian Silo Art Trail website.
Tahlia Crane
