Guido van Helten

Guido van Helten is an Australian artist, known for his photorealistic murals.
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.

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