Elwood College Community Art Garden

The project is a beautiful garden area that incorporates seating, edible and indigenous planting and artworks. The artworks could be pieces created by Elwood College students and teachers, and artists. They could be stand-alone and/or incorporated into the seating, retaining walls and/or pathways. The garden would be an oasis. A place to meet, sit, talk, and learn. The garden's design and development would be a collaboration with local environmental groups, Elwood students and neighbourhood people. It's proximity to the school Art-rooms within the school would assist in developing an arts precinct that people can visit and enjoy.

The Elwood Artist Garden will benefit local community by being a special place that is created and inspired by locals…a place that local people can be proud of, have ownership for and that celebrates local arts and artists. It would be a restful, contemplative destination for the thousands of people who walk along the canal, walk between the schools and the many locals who use the Education Precinct as public open space and meet and play there.
It would provide respite from the busy-ness of the sports facilities and would help tie the different aspects of the school’s grounds together.