Gunnedah Silo

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Gunnedah Silo Art, Australian Silo Art Trail
Photo by: Marg Carr

Gunnedah Silo Art - New South Wales

 Artist: Heesco

Location: 2 Barber Street, Gunnedah, NSW

Maize Mill, privately owned by: Stephen Dangerfield

Photos by: Marg Carr
Dorothea Mackellar and an extract from her famous poem "My Country" are immortalized on this 29 metre high, privately owned maize mill in Gunnedah. Established silo artist Heesco completed the artwork via cherry picker at the mill site on Barber Street. There is a perfect viewing platform from the walkway on Gunnedah's new bridge that links the Oxley Highway and Warrabungle Street.

Dorothea is famous for having penned one of Australia's most iconic poems, "My Country"

This is a copy of the famous second verse.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

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