Bush studio HPGE enrichment program
Create arts
Program
Students will create artworks inspired by urban bushland, exploring contemporary artists and experimenting with a variety of mediums including drawing, painting and clay.
Learning intention
- We are learning to use art forms to represent nature in artworks.
Activities
This is an immersive day, connecting students with nature, their creativity and visual art making.
The day commences with students acknowledging Country and working together to build ephemeral artworks inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. Among other artists, students will learn about the work of contemporary Australian artists Nicole Foreshew, Bianca Hester, Mabel Julie and Nicholas Mangan.
Students will go on a bushwalk and spend time in nature's classrooms to explore the natural features of the reserve through art making. Photography, sketching, etching, frottage and water-colour painting will be used to record the things in their environment that can be seen and those that remain unseen.
Instruction on the elements and principles of design, mixed-media, printmaking and collage will enhance students' abilities to create and appreciate artworks.
Facilitator: Emily TBC
This program is supported by the NSW DoE Arts Unit.
This program is only available to NSW Department of Education school students.
One day workshop - Stage 2 and 3
2026
Term 3 - Week 6
Tuesday 25th Aug - capacity 50 students (50 spots remaining)
Wednesday 26th Aug - capacity 50 students (50 spots remaining)
Maximum 8 students per school (DoE schools only)
Location
Field of Mars Reserve
Main location – including risk assessment, maps and track overview.
Teachers or parents will need to drop off and pick up students.
Westminster Road alternate entrance
This entrance or exit offers access during severe high tides and heavy rainfall events that cause flooding on the main Pittwater Road entrance.
Essential information
| Cost |
$60 per student - GST free This will be processed through the student's home school. This program is only available to NSW Department of Education school students. |
| Transport | Schools are required to organise transport for students to and from the location. No vehicles are permitted into Field of Mars Reserve. |
| Staff | Teachers are not required to attend. |
| Bring | Sports uniform, art smock backpack, medication, low-waste food, water bottle, sunblock, raincoat, hat, sturdy shoes. |
| View | Preparing for your excursion |
| Welfare |
Participants will be walking during the day on an accessible boardwalk. Wheelchair accessible. May not suit recently unwell participants. For medical or special needs notify staff prior to program. |
| Extreme or wet weather | Program may be modified, postponed or cancelled due to predicted extreme temperatures, bush fire danger, heavy rainfall, high winds or dust storms. |
| Booking policy | Confirm student details 7 days in advance. |
| Cancellation fee |
Less than 4 weeks notice – full cost Weather or fire danger cancellation – $0 |
| Time | Activities |
| 9.15 | Arrival |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Introduction and ice breaker activities |
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Recess |
| 10.15 - 11.00 |
Inspired in nature iPad photography |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Art making |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Lunch |
| 12.30 - 2.00 | Art making |
| 2.00 - 2.15 | Gallery walk |
| 2.15 | Depart |
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus (2024)
Visual Arts
Outcome
- Makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks CA2-VIS-01
Content
Making: Artists represent their world through subject matter and ideas in artworks
- Represent subject matter and ideas in artworks, making choices based on own interpretations of the world
- Use drawing materials and techniques to create effects with texture and tone to represent subject matter and ideas
- Explore balance, scale and proportion in compositions to represent subject matter and ideas
- Demonstrate safe art making practices with respect for physical, social and digital safety
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus (2024)
Visual Arts
Outcomes
- Makes artworks in intentional ways to represent ideas about their world, and explains ways artists are influenced by contexts and how artworks are interpreted by audiences CA3-VIS-01
Content
Making: Artists represent their world in intentional ways through their artmaking practice
- Represent ideas or perspectives of their world and intentions in own artmaking practice
- Use drawing materials and techniques to create artistic effects to represent subject matter or ideas in intentional ways
- Create intentional effects with awareness of the relationships between colours and tones, to represent subject matter or ideas in realistic, imaginative or symbolic ways
- Use painting materials, techniques and processes to explore ways to apply paint in combination with mixed media materials
- Apply understandings of materials, digital technologies and processes to represent intended ideas in artworks
- Explore artistic conventions and ways to represent subject matter and ideas in compositions
- Demonstrate safe artmaking practices with respect for physical, social, digital and cultural safety
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024
