Bush Studio: artist in residence is a visual arts camp for students in Years 9 and 10, especially those considering further studies in visual arts.

The showcase accepted submissions from students in Kindergarten to Year 12 who were interested in creative practices, including music, dance, visual arts, public speaking, film, and drama. Creative and performing arts projects could be submitted by schools, classes or individual students. These submissions were then compiled into a digital showcase celebrating the creativity of NSW public school students with disability.

Bush Studio: primary visual arts camp provides an opportunity for public school students in Years 5 and 6 to be involved in an engaging, challenging and stimulating visual arts program led by experienced visual arts teachers.

The camp aims to provide students with an opportunity to observe, interpret and respond to their immediate environment, the Hawkesbury River and surrounding forests. Students will discover strategies to explore their immediate experience of the landscape to create preliminary works that are process-focused as departure points for resolved studio-based artworks. Students will investigate ways to create sculptural works using natural found objects and use these sculptures to facilitate the making of drawings and monoprints. The program will culminate in an exhibition for families, friends and teachers on the final day of the camp.

Bush Studio: master class is a visual arts camp for students in Year 11, especially those studying Visual Arts, including related VET, content endorsed, board endorsed and life skills courses. Students are given the opportunity to refine their skills in specific expressive forms as they work alongside carefully selected artists to observe, interpret and respond to their immediate environment at Ku-ring-gai National Park, Bobbin Head.

Dedicated students are invited to work alongside artists Emily Besser and Hayley West to discover the intersection of painting, drawing and ceramics through dialogue between materials and artists' processes.  Experiment with numerous painting and drawing mediums in order to overcome preconceptions of their scope. Create dramatic juxtapositions through varied scale, density of brushstrokes and pigment, colour and texture as you harness the possibilities of paper as a surface. Refine hand-building techniques with clay and explore surface treatments as you redefine their limitations. Be challenged to consider alternative sources of meaning in artworks through activities inspired by the narrative of the landscape as you resolve a process-based collection of works.

Bush Studio: Secondary visual arts professional learning is a practical visual arts workshop for secondary visual arts teachers, including those who teach related VET,  content endorsed, board endorsed and life skills courses. Participants are given the opportunity to refine their skills and expertise in specific art forms as they work alongside carefully selected artists to observe, interpret and respond to their immediate environment at Ku-ring-gai National Park, Bobbin Head. Teachers will receive detailed handouts, including activity suggestions and supply lists, that they can take back to their classrooms, integrating new artmaking techniques into future teaching programs.

Embark on a creative safari like no other. Designed to support students as they transition into the vast savannah of high school life, this camp is a chance to explore, create, and discover new strengths in a truly inspiring setting.

Bush studio is a one day workshop for Stages 2 and 3. To meet demand the program will be offered on two separate days. 

Bush Studio: visual arts enrichment is an invitation to students in year 3 to 6 to spend the day immersed in, and be inspired by, the unique urban bushland setting of the Field of Mars Reserve and to experiment with a range of mediums to make engaging and interesting artworks.

Students will be introduced to a variety of work by Australian contemporary artists, including Aboriginal artists, and begin to consider the wide range of perspectives and processes contemporary artists use when making their work. Students will be encouraged to work collaboratively at times, to rethink what drawing can be and do, and to play with the idea of permanence and ephemerality in their artwork. An online gallery at the end of the program provides a platform for students to showcase their artworks and artmaking process. Media used may include drawing, writing, painting, collage, clay and stop-animation.  

This one-day workshop is designed to extend participants' skills and artmaking experiences beyond the classroom. Teachers are encouraged to extend this opportunity to students who display a higher level of engagement in visual arts.

Bush Studio: visual arts enrichment is an invitation to students in year 3 to 6 to spend the day immersed in, and be inspired by, the unique urban bushland setting of the Field of Mars Reserve and to experiment with digital photography to make engaging and interesting artworks. This one-day workshop is designed to extend participants' creative and photography skills beyond the classroom.

Students will create a portfolio of beautiful photographs as they learn the language of photography, digital photography techniques and photo editing on an iPad. Responding to the urban bushland setting and work of Barkindji photographer Kent Morris students will learn how to remix and manipulate some of their images to create a digital artwork. Students will be given the opportunity to select one photo or artwork to be printed and framed while at the centre.