The Built Environment: The term built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity. Ranging in scale from buildings and cultivated greenery to neighbourhoods and cities, this term often also includes supporting infrastructure, such as water supply or energy networks. The built environment is a material, spatial and cultural product of human labour that utilizes physical elements and energy in all forms for living, working and playing. It is "the human-made space in which people live, work, and recreate on a day-to-day basis. The built environment encompasses places and spaces created or modified by people including buildings, parks, and transportation systems it all so has come to incorporate healthy food access, community gardens, "walkability" and "bikability."

Urban art is part of our everyday material surroundings and expressed through mediums such as paint, sculpture and architecture. It is in this spirit that the featured event for the Earth Art activities we are hosting is a Graffiti Wall Project.

 

Natural Environment: 'The term "environmental art" often encompasses "ecological" concerns but is not specific to them. It primarily celebrates an artist's connection with nature using natural materials. The concept is best understood in relationship to the well-established discipline of earth/land art and the rapidly evolving field of ecological art. The field is interdisciplinary in the sense that environmental artists embrace ideas from science and philosophy. The practice encompasses traditional media, new media and critical social forms of production. The work embraces a full range of environmental conditions from the untamed wilderness to the tamed rural landscape and even the developed urban environment and industrial footprint.

 

How to get Involved: Expressions of interest to host workshops, register activities and enter proposals for the Art Prize open 22nd of March. The exhibition will take place in the city of Broken Hill in the Far West region of New South Wales (Australia). The Prize exhibition opening will take place on Sunday 11th of June and closes Sunday 18th of June 2016. It is an International event open to all individuals and groups able to personally display their artwork in Broken Hill.