Art in the Garden

The Botanic Gardens of Sydney's stunning display of plants provides the perfect backdrop to experience art through nature. 

Bring your students and join our skilled educators to explore the Garden, to learn about biodiversity, thriving desert landscapes, connection to place, and to experience the wonders of time spent in nature.

Through visual arts, close observation, mindfulness and art making, students explore ideas about their relationship to the natural world and learn about the benefits of connection to the natural environment.

• Visit the Succulent Garden and be inspired by the amazing shapes and textures of succulents and cacti
• Examine and use a range of art mediums e.g. ochre, charcoal, rubbings, dyes, watercolours and pencils
• Explore nature journaling, a practice that blends art, science, and mindfulness, using their visual art diaries
• Investigate the work of botanical illustrators and create a botanical illustration highlighting how accuracy is more important than aesthetics in this context 
• Experience the benefits of connecting to nature using five senses

• Explore the intersections between art-making, science and nature
• Make art in diverse locations in the Garden including in desert and rainforest landscapes
• Develop a sense of wonder through sensory exploration and nature journaling in the Garden

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

Visual Arts

• Use a range of strategies to explore different artmaking conventions and procedures to make artworks (4.1)  
• Explore the function of and relationships between the artist – artwork – world – audience (4.2) 
• Makes artworks that involve some understanding of the frames (4.3) 
• Recognise and uses aspects of the world as a source of ideas, concepts and subject matter in the visual arts (4.4) 
• Select different materials and techniques to make artworks (4.6)