Farrell Flat Silo Art

Between Mintaro and Burra, the wheat town of Farrell Flat joined Australia's silo art trail in November 2020, when Adelaide artists Jarrod Soden and Matthew Knights spent some 140 hours and more than 150 litres of paint transforming the town's 30-metre grain silos.

The mural covers roughly 900 square metres and depicts the last train to pass through the township, steaming across the canvas against a vivid sunset — a tribute to the railway that once defined the town. The glow of the painted sky reads from kilometres away across the paddocks. The project was funded under the Commonwealth Drought Communities Programme to draw travellers off the main roads, and it works.

It is a 10-minute detour from Mintaro on the road east toward Burra, making an easy photo stop linking the slate village with the copper town.