Big Guitar Men – Boyup Brook

Boyup Brook, Western Australia, Australia

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Recently confirmed · Sep 2026

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Three approximately 45-foot-tall guitar-playing figures formed from standing trees at Harvey Dickson’s Country Music Centre.

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Big Guitar Men – Boyup Brook

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Site-level location · 33.8069° S, 116.4217° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

Three guitar players about forty-five feet tall, and they are made out of trees that are still standing where they grew.

The Guitar Men at Harvey Dickson's Country Music Centre outside Boyup Brook are formed from standing timber – which means the sculptor worked with what was already in the ground rather than carving a felled log or fabricating a frame. That is a fundamentally different discipline: the height, the lean and the branching are all given, and the figure has to be found within them.

At around fourteen metres they are among the tallest figurative works in this catalogue, and the Shire of Boyup Brook describes three of them at the venue.

Harvey Dickson's is a genuine institution in Western Australian country music. Boyup Brook, a small Wheatbelt-edge town south-east of Bunbury, hosts the state's major country music festival, and the centre is a working venue with an accumulated collection of Americana, memorabilia and rodeo gear built up over decades by one family. Event material for 2025 and 2026 confirms it remains active.

The scale suits the setting. A country music venue in a paddock does not need subtlety, and three enormous timber musicians visible above the treeline is the correct register for a place that also runs a rodeo.

Because the works stand on a private venue, this record marks access as following the property rather than open roadside.

There is no record of the maker's identity or a date.

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The Shire of Boyup Brook currently describes three 45-foot Guitar Men at Harvey Dickson’s Country Music Centre, and 2025–26 event material confirms the venue remains active.

ACCESS

The Big Guitar Men are at Harvey Dickson Country Music Centre, a private/event venue. Current Shire of Boyup Brook guidance explicitly says to arrange a visit by phone, so there is no basis for an unrestricted casual-sightseeing arrival. Keep the venue only as an arranged-visit reference and do not enable direct casual navigation.

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The Big Peg – Bridgetown

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An oversized timber clothes peg outside Bridgetown Repertory Theatre.

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Sources & research

CMCA – Boyup Brook Easter Rodeo 2026

Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia · recorded 2026-08-23

Community

Shire of Boyup Brook – Places to See

Shire of Boyup Brook · recorded 2026-08-23

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Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

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