Guido van Helten

Guido van Helten (born 1986)^[1] is an Australian artist, known for his photorealistic murals.^[2]

Brim Silo Art project (2015)

Van Helten was raised in Brisbane and was a graffiti artist in his youth. He moved to Lismore, New South Wales to study visual arts at Southern Cross University, majoring in printmaking.^[3]

Works

• Van Helten's work Brim Silo Art project, a large mural painted on the grain silos at Brim, Victoria, an example of the growing genre of silo art, was a finalist in 2016 Sulman Prize.^[4]

• Van Helten painted a mural on the former BB&T building in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, "to give voice to traditionally Black communities on the west side of Greenville", after a commission in 2019.^[5]

• During the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Van Helten painted of a photograph of the reactor taken in 1986 on the side of a cooling tower.^[6]

• In 2021, he was commissioned as lead artist to paint 16 murals in and around the small Western Australian town of Collie, which included an 8,000-square-metre mural at the Wellington Dam Hydro Power Station.^[7]