THIS community has gone some way to painting itself on the map as a new distinctive public artwork takes shape at the entrance to the small town.
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The Barraba community has banded together to get a mural stamped on the 40-metre-high silos just outside the town in a bid to attract more tourists to the village.
Emily Bowman from the Barraba public art committee said the piece has already begun to pull-in crowds in its initial form.
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International artist Fintan Magee started the silo piece last week and it has been turning heads ever since.
Mrs Bowman said cars were pulling-up on the side of Manilla Road, just south of Barraba, to watch the painter in action.
"It's really awesome to watch the artwork unfold," she said.
"There's plenty of room to pull off the road and there's quite a crowd gathering."
With paint finally being applied to the silos, it's the culmination of about two year's worth of work behind the scenes.
"The main objective was to bring visitors to the town," she said.
"Silo art has become a popular tourist attraction around the state and we have great confidence in the artist's abilities to create an amazing piece of work."
Mr Magee has already left his mark in cities right around the globe with murals painted in Farnce, Belarus, Norway and India, among other countries.
The Barraba artwork will be based on the theme of water divining.
A process Mr Magee witnessed at a local farm during one of his research visits to Barraba and set the creative juices flowing.
The work is expected to take three weeks to complete.
Organisers have encouraged people to visit Barraba watch Mr Magee at work during the coming weeks.
The artist will be painting Monday to Friday for the next couple of weeks and he generally works from around 8am until the early evening.
It comes as a Manilla community group launched a plan to commission silo art in its town, as well as a commitment to work with the University of NSW on a range of other public infrastructure projects.