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The Wheatbelt

DESTINATIONS MERREDIN, NEWDEGATE, RAVENSTHORPE, PINGRUP, KATANNING, PERTH

HIGHLIGHTS THE ART

BEST TIME TO VISIT ALL YEAR

Merredin

PUBLIC SILO TRAIL

Northam

Perth

FIVE DAYS ON SEALED ROADS

Newdegate

Look up! Completed by FORM in 2018, this permanent, open-air gallery links rural and coastal towns across Western Australia, spreading a large and lasting creative legacy on silos, walls and electrical boxes from Northam to Albany. In the beginning Your colourful adventure starts in Northam, where in 2015, London’s Hense and Atlanta’s Phlegm transformed eight CBH Group silos for Australia’s first silo project. Next stop, Merredin, where accomplished street artist Kyle Hughes Odgers used 200L of paint on four 35m silos to illustrate the story of Merredin, its natural environment, diverse community, landforms and agricultural history.

Ravensthorpe

Pingrup

Katanning

Albany

Animal farm Head through Hyden and Wave Rock to Newdegate where Perth muralist Brenton See conquered a fear of heights to depict the area’s wildlife; the Western Bearded Lizard, Mallee Fowl, Spotted-thighed Tree Frog and a Red-tailed Phascogale. You can’t miss Fremantle-based, Dutch-born artist Amok Island’s Six Stages of Banksia baxteri in Ravensthorpe. It depicts the flowering cycle of the species found predominantly between Esperance and Albany. Animals in the artwork are the banksia’s main pollinators; the Honey Possum and New Holland Honeyheater. Off and racing In the small farming town of Pingrup, view Miami-based artist Evoca1’s 25m

high mural depicting the renowned Pingrup Races, its local farming community and agricultural heritage. Brooklyn-based street art duo Yok & Sheryo’s magnificent Ruby Sea Dragon covers the silos in Albany port. Around York Street, look out for murals by local and global artists. City streets Return to Perth via Katanning to see electrical transformer boxes and walls made over with colourful murals by some of WA’s prominent artists including Brenton See, Chris Nixon, Darren Hutchens and Mel McVee, as well as Tunisian artist Karim Jabarri.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT Ravensthorpe silos, Newdegate silos.

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