Art in the Garden

Desert Jungle, an exhibition of stunning artworks from renowned children’s author Jeannie Baker is coming to the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

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

Through visual arts and literature, 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.

• Explore the Desert Jungle exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
• Visit the Succulent Garden and be inspired by the amazing shapes and textures of succulents and cacti
• Examine a range of natural art mediums, and First Nations art making materials and practices e.g. ochre, charcoal, rubbings, dyes, materials for weaving 
• Explore nature journaling, a practice that blends art, science, and mindfulness, using their visual art diaries
• Experience the benefits of connecting to nature using five senses

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)