An art & science project pack for educators
Art For Nature is a project exploring the question: How can humans live well and thrive with our animal neighbours in urban environments?
The project was created with 57 Year 6 students through a Tate Liverpool artist residency at LIPA Primary School, inviting collaboration between artists and Primary School students to bring together creativity, hands on art-making and scientific fieldwork. This residency was part of Tate Liverpool Learning Team’s broader school residency programme in 2025-26, working with artists and schools to explore how artworks in Tate’s collections might be used to support learning across the curriculum, inviting imaginative cross-curricular approaches- in this case through Art and Science, sculpture making and an exploration of local wildlife habitats. The project also explores how activities created collaboratively by artists and schools could have a wider impact, inviting students to share the artworks they have created and their learning peer-to-peer through a project film inviting others to try these activities too.
The project was supported by University of Liverpool etymologist and ecologist Dr Rudi Vespoor, who took on the role as our Project Scientist, advising throughout the project and also supporting the creation of the Student Fieldwork Booklet.
Teachers & Educators!
This Art and Science project takes inspiration from local greenspace and the wildlife who live there. This project page includes a free Project Pack for Educators who would like to try these activities with your own students: our Project Film for students, a Teacher Resource including session outlines and a downloadable Student Fieldwork Booklet.
Project Team
- LIPA Primary School Year 6 students
- Rebecca Oakes (Year 6 teacher & project coordinator- LIPA Primary)
- Project Scientist: Dr Rudi Vespoor, University of Liverpool
- Tate Liverpool Learning Team: Stef Bradley (Curator of Learning), Phil McClure (Assistant Curator of Learning), Anna Batterton (Project Assistant) and N’Kias Coker (Project Assistant)
- Filmmaker: Tim Brunsden
- With additional filming by Eva Ragoo