Silo Art Fest
The First Ever Silo Art Fest!
12 March 2023 at The Mill Park Murrumburrah
This is a national first, a celebration of the astounding silo artworks that are on display across Australia and highlighted with the Australian Silo Art Trail, our largest outdoor gallery!
The Silo Art Fest honours our Murrumburrah Silo Artworks and the completion of the reverse side of the silo artworks by Heesco, Australia’s leading silo artist. To kick off the festival, renowned street artists Damien Mitchel and Luke Vineburg will be completing a live mural painting demonstration with an exclusive Q&A!
There will be a huge array of activities available to entice the the inner artist, from First Nation weaving, sculpture, paint pouring, drawing, painting, wood-turning, Patina Alchemy and gold panning! Watch out for roving instant art prizes for enthusiastic participants throughout the day!
The Silo Art Fest is a family-friendly day encouraging the whole family, children & grandparents alike, to get involved and create art!. So come along, relax, and enjoy a hot damper, ice-cream, coffee, and listen to many different musicians, including the … Bush Band!
Enquiries to Harden Murrumburrah Arts Council – Greg Medway Mb 0487 028 657, [email protected]
Check out some of the awesome activities below!
Art Painting Workshop
This is a form of visual art that has been practised for thousands of years that captures The expression, ideas, on a two-dimensional flat surface. It can convey sensations of movement, volume and space. Damien Mitchel and Luke Brown, two renowned leading street artists will be present at the Silo Art Fest, to inspire and guide everyone with their art paintings. Plus there are art prizes awarded Every Hour!
First Nations Weaving Workshop with Aboriginal Artist Jodie Munday from Cr8ive Art. Join Jodie as she takes you through an introduction to the ancient art of Indigenous weaving using modern and traditional materials. Learn how Indigenous culture is very much alive and gain knowledge of a long-used practice!
Come Gold Panning Find a nugget!
Its easy, we have the soil, the rocks, the water and the Gold! Learn from the experts, “it’s all in the swivel and the twist and shout!” So you can pan away and find real Gold, at the Silo Art Fest!
Patina Alchemy Workshop with regional Sculptor Al Phemister. Create patterns on metal! Have you ever noticed the different colours and texture on metal jewellery, sculptures and objects? All these colours & textures are known as patinas. Patinas can be brown, gold, green, black, blue, white, orange & grey! Patinas grow on the surface of metals and can take hundreds and even thousands of years to develop naturally.You can create a patina quickly by applying a coating onto metal using non-toxic recipes.
Sculpture Workshop
Sculpture is an artistic form of visual arts, and unlike painting which traditionally represents an illusion on a flat surface, sculpture as a three dimensional created object, inhabits the space and shared by the sculptor and viewer. Sculpture is also tactile, you can touch it and feel it! Our Sculptors at the Silo Art Fest will assist, guide and encourage the creative abilities sometimes unknown or hidden within a person to achieve your own unique sculpture. Who knows, deep within may be lurking a Michelangelo or a Rodin?
Paint Pour Workshop
This is a fluid painting method created by using acrylic paint poured on a surface to create a flowing design. So throw away your paintbrushes and mix up your colours and paint pour with your free flowing action and create brilliant new colourful designs. Come and learn how to do it, at the Silo Art Fest
Bush Ballads and Bush Bands
From the arrival of the First Fleet 1788 in Port Jackson Sydney, both the convicts and the sailors and officers brought with them their own ballads and songs. Gradually these became colonial songs and many songs came to reflect life in the bush. Also many musicians made their own musical instruments, these were unique colonial instruments, along with the traditional banjo and mouth organ. The silo artworks about to be painted on the reverse side of the Murrumburrah Silos, reflects early colonial musicians.
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