Coming home from Sale we took the south road because I had seen a brochure for Yarram. Also known as Heesco Town, it is a town full of murals by the street artist Heesco.
Heesco Khosnaran is a Mongolian-born street artist who moved to Australia more than twenty years ago and has become a well respected street artist and silo painter.
He was asked by a local artist to paint a mural on the inside walls of the Bull Bar and Gallery in Yarram. This led to the vision of having the whole town painted, then he was stuck in Yarram during the lock-down and the rest, as they say, is history. In fact he is still painting and was 'at work' the day we were there.
Unlike Benalla these paintings are inside and outside buildings and many centre on local history, from First Nation to refugees. One moving work was paid for by the Vietnamese man who owns the bakery and is painted along his side wall. He had been a boat person and decided that this was the best way he could thank the town and Australia for all he had received since arriving here.
We didn't see many of the interior ones but these are some of the exterior wall murals.
A recent mural in the park commemorates the part volunteers and others have played in the last two years, with bush fires and the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a Thank You to all the frontline workers who have cared for Victorians, and was commissioned by Office of the Governor of Victoria.
Great job Heesco and committee of volunteers!
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