Gunnedah Silo Art Depicting Dorothea Mackellar

Painted by Melbourne artist Heesco Khosnaran, on the historic Gunnedah Maize Mill is a fantastic piece of silo art. Depicting the poet Dorothea Mackellar and lines from her famous poem My Country, it stands over 20m tall.

The silos must be viewed from outside a fence because they are part of an operating mill. This does not stop you viewing the whole mural, because of its size and location. We parked in New Street and walked around the outside of the fence, but found the best view for a photo was from the locked gate. With workers gone for the day, the view was great as nothing was in the way.

Another good view was from the Warrabungle Street Bridge, although a fence obscures part of the view.

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!

https://www.dorotheamackellar.com.au/archive/mycountry.htm

This is a beautiful piece of artwork and represent both the poet Dorothea Mackellar and the country in which she grew up perfectly.

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