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Image credit: Imogen Jade's Creamy Cocktail Bar, Little Orange Presents, Sydney Contemporary. Photo: Nancy Trieu

Little Orange is a Campbelltown Arts Centre working studio for artists who identify as a person living with disability, d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing and/or Disabled Creatives. Since 2014 the studio has fostered artistic practice through the provision of materials, mentorships, business training and access to industry professionals. Working across a broad range of mediums including drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, performance and new media, the studio provides the artists with a platform to develop and launch their careers.

In 2025, the Studio exhibited in Fun Park Water Feature Garden: A Little Orange Exhibition (Bobby’s Container Art Gallery of NSW). Earlier that year, ‘Peter Gregson: Volcanoes & Tornadoes’ surveyed the work by the late Studio artist Peter Gregson, a Kameygal man from Sydney’s La Perouse region. Simon Nicholls was a finalist in The Hazlehurst Works on Paper Award, The Eckersley’s Art & Craft Prize and Change and Hope: Lived- Experience Art Competition, University of Sydney. Xeni Kusumitra was the recipient of the MacAbility Award, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. 

In 2024, Little Orange celebrated their 10th birthday with a curated party and Fisher’s Ghost Art Award tour. Imogen Jade and Jenny Kee launched their editioned scarf through the exhibition ‘My brilliant sophisticated spontaneous scarf adventure and journey’. Jezzy Fezzy created murals ‘I’m a Fein For Monsters’ (Art After Hours, Art Gallery of New South Wales) and The Common-room Mural (Macarthur Disability Services).

In 2023, Incognito Art Show generously donated auction proceeds to the Studio and Adam Jones received the Stephen Cummins Residency.

In 2022, CAC presented major exhibition, Little Orange Goes Big, foregrounding the ethos and energy of the Studio. 2019 achievements include ‘Little Orange Presents’ (Sydney Contemporary Art Fair) where Adam Jones performed in a tarot booth, Imogen Jade served drinks at her Creamy Cocktail Bar and Joel Beers offered rides on Tony’s Bus made of cardboard installed over a golf buggy. In 2021, Richard J Bell was mentored by Tongan culture consultant Mary Haeva, and Xeni Kusumitra’s painting of CAC Director Michael Dagostino, marking his tenth year at the Arts Centre, was a finalist in the Archibald Prize.

2020 saw the studio focus on public art projects, including Eagle Farm Park, Redfern Park, Rizal Park and a city-wide domestic violence awareness campaign with artist Giselle Stanborough.

In 2019, Little Orange set up their working studios at The Other Art Fair and hosted the birthday celebration of Campbelltown Art Centre’s 30th Anniversary exhibition, ‘We are all connected to Campbelltown (one way or another)’. The Art Gallery of NSW invited the Studio to collaborate on the AGNSW Art After Hours ‘2019 International Day of People with Disability’ exhibition and Kaldor Public Art Projects hosted a series of ‘Love & Happiness’ Studio talks.

Little Orange Studio is coordinated by David Capra and co-facilitated by Julie Finch.

Past Studio artists include Renee Allara, Peter Gregson, Richard J Bell, Sri Thulin and Sean O’Leary.

 

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2026

Source Material, Campbelltown Arts Centre.

2025

Fun Park Water Feature Garden: A Little Orange Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales (Mike Hewson: The Key’s Under the Mat 

Bobby’s Container, Naala Badu building, Nelson Packer Tank)

Peter Gregson: Volcanoes & Tornadoes, Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Simon Nicholls, The Hazlehurst Works on Paper Award.

Simon Nicholls, The Eckersley’s Art & Craft Prize.

Simon Nicholls, Change and Hope: Lived-Experience Art Competition, University of Sydney.

Xeni Kusumitra, MacAbility Award Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2024

Imogen Jade x Jenny Kee: My brilliant sophisticated spontaneous scarf adventure and journey, Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Studio Musings, Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Little Orange Presents Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Jezzy Fezzy, I’m a Fein For Monsters, Art After Hours Turns 21, Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Jezzy Fezzy, Common room mural, Macarthur Disability Services, Campbelltown Arts Centre.

2023

Incognito Art Show, Verona Gallery.

Adam Jones, Stephen Cummins Residency recipient, Performance Space.

Little Orange presents Sundown Sessions, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Thought Life, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Mental Health Month.

Blake Thomas, Jezzy Fezzy, Richard J Bell, Fifty Skies, Annandale Galleries.

2022

Little Orange Goes Big, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Little Orange presents Sundown Sessions, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2021

Photographic portraits with Garry Trinh , Campbelltown Arts Centre

Jessica Pound, Puppets Night Out, public art amenity screen, Livvi’s Place, Glenfield, Campbelltown City Council, Variety Fundraising

Richard J Bell, Tongan Kupesi Connection, Create NSW Grant

Artist Exchange Markets, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Xeni Kusumitra, C-A-C Friends Exhibition, MacAbilty Award

Xeni Kusumitra, Archibald Prize finalist, Art Gallery NSW

Xeni Kusumitra, Arts Activated Conference panelist, Highlighting Diversity: The Impact Of Representation On A National Platform

Renee Allara, Auslan Tour, Macarthur and Beyond, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Renee Allara, Cementa Residency, Kandos

Jessica Fesic Campbelltown Animal Facility designs, Campbelltown City Council

Imogen Jade,  PRUAIP M4 Sound barriers commission, Cumberland City Council

Adam Jones, Tarot Tuesdays, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2020

Imogen Jade and Jessica Pound, public art amenity screen, Eagle Farm Park, Campbelltown City Council

Jessica Fesic and Renee Allara, public art amenity screen, Redfern Park, Campbelltown City Council

Richard J Bell and Blake, public art amenity screen, Rizal Park, Campbelltown City Council

International Day of People with Disability Mural, Campbelltown Bike Education Centre

Renee Allara, Brendalee Coan Jessica Fesic and Giselle Stanborough, Domestic Violence Mural, Post Office Dumaresq Street and Millgate Lane, Campbelltown City Council

Venturing Out of My Cave, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Imogen Jade, Creamy Cocktail Bar, Justine Williams’ She Conjured the Clouds, Sydney Festival, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2019

Joel Beers’ Tony’s Bus, Adam Jones’ Tarot Booth, Imogen Jade’s, Creamy Cocktail Bar, Little Orange Presents, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair

Art After Hours International Day of People with Disability – Little Orange Presents: Pandora, Art Gallery NSW

Hand Picked Markets, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Workshop Facilitation, Eat Your Heart Out Festival, Liverpool City Council

Love & Happiness Public talks/Mentorship, Kaldor Public Art Projects Studio, Art Gallery NSW

Workshop Facilitation, Fishers Kids, Campbelltown Arts Centre

The Other Art Fair, Sydney Technology Park

Adam Jones , Michelle Brown, CreateAbility Internships, Create NSW

Jessica Pound, Ingleburn Mural, Love Ingleburn Activation

Peter Gregson, Fringe Lily Mural, Campbelltown City Council

Xeni Kusumitra, Macability Award  Fishers Ghost Arts Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Peter Gregson, Macarthur Artist Award Fisher’s Ghost Arts Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Sri Thurlin, Bunadnon Trust Residency, Accessible Arts

Xeni Kusumitra, John Olsen Scholarship, Julian Ashton

2018

Art Markets, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Car Boot Markets, Curated Garry Trinh, Gallery 4A, World Square

Little Orange Party, 30th Birthday Celebrations, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2017

Exhibition and Artist talks, Campbelltown Disability Action Plan launch, Campbelltown City Council

Photographic portraits (with Daisey Knight & Nancy Trieu), Campbelltown Arts Centre

Sri Thulin, Arts activated conference speaker, Accessible Arts

2016

Big Blue (Little Orange) exhibition, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Little Orange promotional video, Produced by David Capra & Kate Blackmore


 

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