Albany-Kinjarling Silo Mural
Image source Bewley Shaylor
Artist: Yok, Sheryo
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2018
Location: Albany-Kinjarling
Provenance: City of Albany-Kinjarling
Description: Western Australia’s southernmost port city has a wealth of urban art to delight the visitor.
There’s the ruby sea dragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea) on massive silos by The Yok & Sheryo down at the port, and then in the city centre, a variety of murals by local and international artists.
The first wave of this creative takeover began in April 2016 with urban artists from Europe, Tunisia, Australia and the States getting together with local talent to give buildings and alleyways around York Street a makeover as part of FORM’s annual PUBLIC festival of urban art.
Then in 2018, the dynamic duo The Yok & Sheryo took on the CBH Group grain silos, and referenced Albany’s pristine environment and sea-life with one very happy-looking marine creature (and local resident), the ruby sea dragon.
Ravensthorpe Silo Mural
Image source Bewley Sharlor
Artist: Amok Island
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: Ravensthorpe
Provenance: Shire of Ravensthorpe
Description: It took 31 days, 338 litres of paint and countless trips up and down the silos in a knuckle boom for Fremantle-based, Dutch-born artist Amok Island to execute Six Stages of Banksia baxteri across three stout CBH Group silos, visible for miles around.
The landscape around Ravensthorpe comes alive every spring with thousands of species of wildflower bursting into colour, so Amok Island decided to focus on native Western Australian flora and fauna for his largest mural to date.
‘Each silo side shows a different stage of the flowering cycle of this species of Banksia: from flower buds, to full bloom, to seedpods developing, drying out and opening’, explains the artist.
The artwork encircles the three silos infinitely; the final silo marks the beginning once again of the first, making a connection with the cycle of the seasons and grain farming processes this area is known for. This species of banksia is only found between Esperance and Albany.
The animals in the artwork are this species’ main pollinators; the Honey Possum (Tarsipes rostratus) and New Holland Honey eater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)
Newdegate Silo Mural
Image source Public Silo Trail
Artist: Brenton See
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2018
Location: Newdegate
Provenance: Town of Newdegate
Description: Newdegate. Salt lake and wildflower country. Wheat and barley country.
In May 2018, faced with a row of CBH silos high above his head, Perth artist Brenton See conquered his fear of heights to paint four huge murals which draw inspiration directly from the flora and fauna of the area.
One features a local resident, the Western Bearded Dragon (Pomona minor minor), namesake of the nearby Dragon Rocks Nature Reserve. Another local, the Red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura), a rare marsupial found only in the Wheatbelt, features in another. Only 10 cm long, this creature can jump an incredible twenty times its own length.
On the neighbouring panel, Brenton has painted the profile of a Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata), the bird symbol of the Wheatbelt and a regular of the Newdegate area.
The final panel is an emblematic depiction of the region, says Brenton. It features a shape like a drop of water, half-white, half-teal. The white represents the salt lakes; and the teal represents the freshwater lakes and rain. In the background are coloured squares showing how the land appears from above: green for the bushland areas and brown, orange and red for the dirt and rocks.
Pingrup Silo Mural
Image source Brewley Sharlor
Artist: Evoca1
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2018
Location: Pingrup
Provenance: Shire of Kent
Description: Miami artist Evoca1’s 25 metre high artwork, painted on giant grain storage silos in the Great Southern farming town of Pingrup is a tip of the hat to Western Australia’s tenacious, resourceful farming communities.
A scene drawing threads from the fabric of everyday life in Pingrup, Evoca1’s figurative depictions of the town’s iconic Pingrup races, its Merino sheep, its people, cattle dogs and even a tractor based precisely on one found on the main street of town, all tell a story about the character of the community.The artist took 15 days and 230 litres of paint to create the mural, which entailed a series of artworks on three individual silos, each 25 metres high and 15 metres wide. Working with rollers and brushes atop a boom lift from dawn to dusk, Evoca1 battled high winds and several days of rain.
“Creating an artwork for a community that reflects that community, so that they really connect with the artwork is really rewarding for me,” Evoca1 said.
Merredin Silo Mural
Image source Bewley Shaylor and JP Horre
Artist: Kyle Hughes-Odgers
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2017
Location: Merredin
Provenance: Shire of Merredin
Description: 200 litres of paint, 14 days, 168 hours, two lifts, 80 rollers and 10 brushes. That’s what it took for Western Australian street artist Kyle Hughes-Odgers to complete artworks across four 35-metre high silos outside the Wheatbelt town of Merredin in August 2017.
The carefully researched artwork concept tells a story about Merredin, its natural environment in the colours, its diverse community in the artwork’s abstract forms and figures, its landforms and agricultural history in the symbols. This was the artist’s biggest canvas yet, working in beating sun and slicing wind, 135 feet from the ground and around the clock. ‘I have a rational fear of standing in a metal bucket 12 storeys off the ground,’ Kyle said with characteristic understatement when asked whether he had any nerves about the project. But he did it anyway.
Blue Mamalia
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Artist: Favio Martinez (Curiot)
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: Rear 962 Hay St, Perth.
Provenance: City of Perth
Description: Situated at the rear of QV1 on Murray Street is the spectacular curved mural by Mexican street artist Favio Martinez Curiot.
Curiot is an artist from Mexico who visited Perth in 2015 as part of FORM’s PUBLIC festival. The festival saw 50 international and local street artists paint works around various locations in Perth.
Curiot is inspired by nature, and his works often include mythical creatures blended with animal and human forms. He developed this artwork inspired by Australian wildlife including the koala, and our beautiful bushlands.
Moving Landscapes
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Artist: Eko Nugroho
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: Railway Reserve, Moore St, East Perth.
Provenance: City of Perth
Description: This wonderful mural is comprised of many elements, surrounded with what look like tentacles and sea, while skeletal tails drift away to the right.
Numbat Mural
Image source Lyda Hayward
Artist: ROA
Asset Type: Mural, Decommissioned
Year of Work: 2011
Location: Henderson Street Mall
Provenance: City of Fremantle
Description: Commissioned by the City of Fremantle the mysterious Belgian artist ROA created the Numbat Mural in one night. It quickly became a beloved Fremantle icon.
ROA chose the numbat after time spent with Aboriginal Elders of the Pilbara learning about the wildlife. He chose the numbat because it was endangered and that people in the city so easily forget about the natural environment.
In 2022 the heritage limestone wall that held the mural was set to be demolished as part of Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s new hotel development. At time of writing (2025) the new development has yet to start but the building has been removed and the nearby carparking area has been expanded.
The Rainbow
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Artist: Marcus Canning
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2016
Location: Beach reserve adjacent to Canning Highway, Fremantle, WA, 6160.
Provenance: City of Fremantle
Description: Sometimes called ‘The Containbow’, Marcus Canning’s ‘Rainbow’ was installed between the bridges at Beach Reserve overlooking the Fremantle port in 2016. At nine-metres high and 19-metres long, and tipping the scales at 66 tonnes Rainbow is not your average public art piece.
The sculpture by prominent Perth artist Marcus Canning is constructed from nine recycled sea containers joined to form an arch.
Canning’s artwork now welcomes visitors to Fremantle whether they’re arriving by train, car or boat. It overlooks the Swan River as well as the container port from which it draws part of its inspiration as a universal symbol of hope and acknowledgement of Fremantle’s artistic as well as maritime heritage.
Ascalon
Image source St. George’s Cathedral
Artist: Marcus Canning, Christian de Vietri
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2011
Location: St George’s Cathedral, Cathedral Square Precinct, Perth, WA.
Provenance: City of Perth
Description: Ascalon seeks to create a space of contemplation, exhilaration, and inspiration. It distils the essence of St George mythology in a contemporary, abstracted rendition that is timeless in its relevance, evoking the greater archetypal truths that permeate from his story and how these truths pertain to the individual and to society, now and for centuries to come.
In Medieval Romance, ‘Ascalon’ is the name of the lance used by St George to slay the dragon. Here, the lance is rendered as a monumental tube that emits a single beam of light into the heavens at night. It is set into a large fragmented landscape of black epoxy coated steel plate. An abstracted representation of the slain body of the dragon, this highly detailed and complexly faceted terrain has a crack running along its central axis that emanates from the point where the lance has entered the petrified, fossilised, and fragmented form of the dragon.
At night, light shines up through the crack, illuminating the luminous white form suspended above it.
The third element to the work is a billowing white cloak form that wraps and warps in a single undulating plane around the lance. It is cast in white epoxy coated hybrid composite, and despite its large dimensions, holds an ethereal lightness alongside its elemental power.
The form is an abstraction of St George on his steed and also references the recurring cloak form that features in many depictions of St George across Western art history, usually operating as a field similar to a halo or angel’s wings. The form aims to evoke a sense of righteous power and victory over a force of darkness and oppression.
The form of Ascalon has been developed and modelled in a digital environment in collaboration with New York-based architect Eldad Lev, allowing for a seamless ‘press play’ transition to fabrication using the latest in 3D printing and digitally controlled sculpting machinery.
Perth-based structural engineering firm Capital House, who were behind the Kings Park Suspension Bridge, are the project managers of the Ascalon fabrication and site build, and they have, amongst other things, designed a customised dampening system to tune the form to the specific wind conditions of the site.
Spanda
Image source Jarrad Seng
Artist: Christian de Vietri, ShapeShift
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2016
Location: Geoffrey Bolton Avenue, Perth, WA.
Provenance: City of Perth
Description: Spanda is a 9 story-high sculpture made of carbon fiber located in Perth, Western Australia. It was commissioned for fabrication by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority of Western Australia and installed at Elizabeth Quay in 2016.
Intended as an icon to uplift the city and its inhabitants, the idea of human identity being constituted of layers or sheaths was a starting point for the sculpture’s design. These layers represent the contours and constituents of the human experience, proceeding from gross to subtle as one moves from the periphery to the core. The exponential repetition of the arch form creates the impression of an infinite vibration, a pattern of self-similarity that is intended to trigger the viewer's inner experience of wholeness, the recognition of themselves as individual expressions of the universal, intimately interconnected, and one with their total environment.
The sculpture was designed to have a strong sense of presence without being imposing nor obscuring any building or vantage point. It is aligned with the site such that the curvature of the form contrasts with gridded square buildings behind it. The arch-like quality of the form is mysteriously functionless as it is neither an entrance nor an exit, but stands alone, declaring its own liminal space for the viewer to merge with. The structure was built by a team of expert digital fabricators and engineers who re-purposed carbon fibre manufacturing technology from the aerospace industry to enable a truly unique civil structure that would not have been possible in traditional materials.
The title of the work is a Sanskrit word meaning “divine cosmic vibration”. This term is used to describe how Consciousness generates and resorbs the manifest world by expanding and contracting in waves of its own expressive capacity. The sculpture is intended to be both a formal representation of this ‘spanda’ principle, and a tool, or means, to stimulate its experience.
“We praise that Śankara who is the source of the power of the wheel of energies by whose expansion (unmeśa) and contraction (nimeśa) the universe is absorbed and comes into being.” Kallaṭa, Spanda-kārikās (trans. Mark Dyczkowski)
Northam Silo Mural
Image source Instagram
Artist: Hense (Alex Brewer)
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: Northam grain silos, Northam, WA.
Provenance: Northam-Toodyay Road, Northam, WA
Description: FORM began the PUBLIC Silo Trail by painting the Northam CBH Group grain silos in March 2015.
It’s important to note that the Northam Silos are fully operational and no unauthorised access is allowed on this site. There is a one-way pullover place for cars and caravans and photos can be taken of the silos from there.
Northam Silos Mural
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Artist: Phlegm
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: Northam Grain Silos, Western Australia
Provenance: Northam-Toodyay Road, Northam, WA
Description: Phlegm created this mural with FORM, where he spent over two weeks painting on 38 metre high grain silos.
FORM began the PUBLIC Silo Trail by painting the Northam CBH Group grain silos in March 2015.
It’s important to note that the Northam Silos are fully operational and no unauthorised access is allowed on this site. There is a one-way pullover place for cars and caravans and photos can be taken of the silos from there.
Octopus
Image source Phlegm
Artist: Phlegm
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: Former Navy Stores, corner Canning Highway and Queen Victoria St, Fremantle.
Provenance: City of Fremantle
Description: Painted by Phlegm for public2015.
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Rainbow Serpent
Image source Waone Interesni Kaski
Artist: Waone Interesni Kazki
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: 22 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge, Perth, WA.
Provenance: City of Perth
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Jumping the Shark
Image source Instagram
Artist: Haylee Fieldes (Fieldey)
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: 367 Albany Hw, Lincoln St. side. Victoria Park, Perth, WA.
Provenance: Town of Victoria Park
Description: The shark that now surges from the wall of The Good Store, accompanied by a mermaid, represents a departure from those ideas, however.
“I wanted to go back to the fun and characters from my surfboard art,” explains Fieldey. “The work is called Jumping the Shark. I’m making a joke about the expression ‘jumping the shark’ with my art,” she says.
This expression, which has its origins in TV series Happy Days, is worth googling. “In my piece I thought I’d do a mermaid riding a shark. She’s got four arms, she’s holding a riding crop and she’s giving a thumbs up. It’s ridiculous… and fun! I’m taking something masculine and... gruesome and turning it on its head.” - Nina Levy, The West Australian.
The mural has been partially destroyed in order to add another entrance to the building.
Banksia Man
Image source Instagram
Artist: Aleksei Bordusov (Aec Interesni Kazki)
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: North Metropolitan TAFE Building 1, Northbridge, Perth, WA. Can be seen clearly from Francis St.
Provenance: City of Perth
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Co-existence
Image source Eugene Scrivener (Museum of Perth)
Artist: Peter Lowe
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 1997
Location: Council House Gardens, South Western side of elliptical grassed terrace behind Council House
Provenance: City of Perth
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To Serve and Protect
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Miriam Plum
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: 435 Robinson St, East Carnarvon WA 6701
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: This beautiful mural tells the story of our service men and women of the Pilbara Regiment and Reservist from Carnarvon and the Gascoyne region.
The rich earthy tones are synonymous with this country. The silhouette and sketched images of the service personnel at work.
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Lest We Forget
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Miranda Plum
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: 435 Robinson St, East Carnarvon WA 6701
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: A moving tribute to our service men and women past, present, and future.
“As with the going down of the Sun we shall remember them”.
Situated on the western wall of the Pilbara Regiment Barracks who serve 1.8 Million square kilometres of Western Australia
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