That Sarah Randall found time to lap up plein air site offerings during weekends at The Squatter’s Residency in 2025 and 2026 is testament to her focused work ethic.
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The year 11 and 12 art students of Kelso High School don’t skip a beat in their engagement and questioning of Harrie Fasher’s process, logistics, themes and more during their excursion to The Foundations, Portland in June 2026.
Jane Alexander has spent May 2026 immersed in experimentation at The Squatter’s Cottage, The Foundations, Portland. Working across painting, drawing, and sculpture during her Squatter’s Residency, Jane has embraced having the time and space to trial some cold wax in her paintings for the first time.
Closes Friday 5 June 2026.
Arts OutWest and South East Arts are calling for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artists to apply for a cross‑regional artist residency program, Tidal Exchange.
Below is a photographic essay by Lizzie Buckmaster Dove of Harrie Fasher’s studio activity in the lead up to Harrie Fasher’s solo exhibition Before Dawn at Orange Regional Gallery 2025/26.
Brad Hammond Director of Orange Regional Gallery said at the opening of Before Dawn a solo exhibition by Harrie Fasher at Orange Regional Gallery, that her work is “ambitious, extraordinary and personal”. She “takes risks and brings people along” in a “process where everything is about to completely and radically change”. Her work “is about transformation”.
With heartfelt responsibility to country, Annemaree Dalziel and Lizzie Buckmaster Dove walked gently on The Foundations site in November 2025 as part of their shared residency at The Squatter’s Cottage.
3D cardboard sculptures were kid-handled into shape with nuts and bolts, paper fasteners, cloth tape and scissors by students at Portland Central School in workshops led by Em Ingram Shute this February 2026.
A lemon is on the wall, in all its glory. It could not be more in-place on the floral wallpaper of The Squatter’s studio whilst Jaq Davies is the Artist in Residence. During her February 2026 residency, Jaq has orchestrated an eclectic amalgamation of bits and bobs to extend from and converse with her paintings and drawings on paper pinned here, there and everywhere.
Fran O’Neill activated The Administration Building studio at The Foundations during her Squatter’s Residency, returning in January 2026 with Inga Dalrymple and Cat Mills.