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Heesco Town, Yarram

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Style: Narrative rural mural trail with large figurative works tied to local history and community identity. Between 2020 and 2023, Heesco painted a remarkable series of prominent murals across Yarram, turning the Gippsland town into what locals now call Heesco Town. The works stretch across main-street buildings and infrastructure, including the water tower, and they move easily between epic portraiture, historical storytelling, and place-based tribute. The project matters because it is both artistic and civic. Residents and business owners worked with the artist as the town sought new energy after bushfire impacts and the pandemic. That community tone comes through in the murals themselves: they are not generic festival pieces dropped onto walls, but images that speak to Yarram's memory, regional pride, and frontier-scale skies. In a heritage streetscape surrounded by coast, farmland, and forest, the murals feel grounded rather than imposed.