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olivia floate |
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hello. as sausage woman I make pots and (giant) puppets. they are two very different things but sausage woman is always there. i like the concept of character a lot. it's in clay in the way it moves and feels, and builds, breaks, and melts. and i put it into puppets by looking at how a being may style themselves through their movements or the clothes they wear. things change, but one thing is certain for now: all my works have a face. i work from my studio in brunswick, melbourne/naarm, australia pretty much every day. and, at the moment i am collecting clay from a nearby building site and turning it into some pots. i am 33 years old. |
| arts practice | ||
| since 2020 | as "sausage woman" | |
| upcoming | Melbourne Festival of Puppetry 25th & 27th September | |
| Bread and Puppet Apprenticeship, July 2026, Vermont, USA | ||
| 2026 | Sleepless Festival Footscray | |
| 2025 | 'Mother and Baby' with Liam Berg and Affrica Fankhauser and Lauren Berkeley Melbourne Fringe Festival 2025 (City of Melbourne Quick Response Arts Grants) |
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| Special Prize, International Space-Out Competion by Woopsyang, Rising Festival | ||
| 2024 | 'a peoples #2' @ Assembly Point, Southbank | |
| 'Mother' Girl and Girl | ||
| Western Artists Mentorship Program w/ Snuff Puppets | ||
| since 2018 | w/ Snuff Puppets in a variety of things and ways | |
| 2023 | Pottery w/ Hiroshige Kato, Seto, Japan | |
| 2022 | 'A Peoples' @ Library at The Dock | |
| 'Artsbox' resident w/ Maribyrnong City Council | ||
| 'Hellmouth' Melbourne Fringe Festival w/ Golden Scissor Puppets | ||
| 'MoreSpace' w/ Merri-bek City Council | ||
| 'Making Space' resident w/ Merri-bek City Council | ||
| 2019 | 'That Time I Was A Telemarketer' + Creative Arts Grant @ George Paton Gallery | |
| 2015 | 'Chin Chin Wall of Art' @ Chin Chin Restaurant | |
| 2014 | Grad Show @ VCA | |
| Majlis Travelling Scholarship | ||
| education | ||
| 2016 - 2021 | Bachelor of Arts (Art History and Russian Studies), The University of Melbourne | |
| 2012 - 2014 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art, Sculpture and Spatial Practice), The University of Melbourne | |
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