Silo Art Trail SHEEP HILLS

Our next stop was Sheep Hills.
All is well sign posted and as most of them just at the side of the road a bit hard to get lost!

A dot on the map Sheep Hills was the name of a pastoral run taken up in 1847 by Archibald McMillan. Farm allotments were taken up in the mid-1870s, several of the settlers being of a German-Lutheran tradition. The Sheep Hills district was known as Bangerang (the name of a Lutheran school) and Tarkedia (the name of a State school opened in 1877). In 1886 the railway was extended from Minyip to Warracknabeal and the settlement which grew at the railway siding was named Sheep Hills. 

The Sheep Hills Suilo is the most colourful of them all and depicts members of the Barengi Gadjin community, including local Elders Uncle Ron Marks, Aunty Regina Hood and two younger members of the community.

The mural represents the passing on of knowledge and local indigenous history from Elders to the next generation within the community; as well as depicting elements of the local dreaming and the passing of time. 
Adnate,  an internationally renowned artist, completed this in  December 2016 and spread across all six silos,  with a starry background that has a symbolic significance to the local people. 

The rail tracks behind the silo 

ADNATE 2016

 Adnate who is widely celebrated for his work with Indigenous communities, spent three weeks with the Barengi Gadjin community to conceive and complete of the Sheep Hills silo mural in his hopes of creating more than just art- “I want to create a conversation among local people and visitors to engage in the history of the people and the area”.

Trees opposite the old Pub

The old Cain's Commercial Hotel 

A census in 2006 shows 189 people but nothing recorded since so it was every small! The lovely old pub now c;used as many are in the area