Plein air in Your Pocket with artist Sarah Anderson

Local artist and horticulturalist Sarah Anderson will lead this free creative workshop as part of the Eco-Lab 2026 residency @ the NASA Gallery at the Servo.

A workshop for capturing moments outdoors through sketching on paper with whatever materials hide in your bag. It’s a really great way to ‘see’ a landscape by recording what interests the participant.

What you need to know:

• suitable for adults

• some walking in the vicinity of the Servo involved, please wear suitable footwear, bring a hat and waterbottle.

• please arrive 15 mins before the event starts

• in the event of bad weather, the workshop will take place at The Servo undercover.

Please bring:

• a portable stool/camping chair that is easy to carry if you have one

• loose papers or a small sketchbook and your favourite sketching media (pen, pencil, watercolour) but keep it simple!

• the artist will supply additional papers and art materials.

This workshop is part of Eco-Lab 2026

Eco-Lab is a creative program to share the practices of diverse artists from the Illawarra and beyond, with community, fostering ecological awareness, care for Country and meaningful engagement with place.

Eco-Lab will be in residence at the NASA Gallery, the Servo, Port Kembla from 24 October to 08 November.

REMADE for Eco-Lab is a group exhibition showing for the duration of the residency.

ECO-LAB, the REMADE exhxibition and workshops have been made possible by a Wollongong City Council Small Cultural Arts Grant.