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olivia floate
oliviafloate@gmail.com

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 v. slowly 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 (lit.) into some pots.

i am 32 years old.

rush is no (wo)man's friend.

@sausagewoman

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)
  
  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
  Salooons
  SWAMP
  'Transsocial'
  'Punch Agathe'
  'The Sticky Specimen Rebellion'
  + roamings
  
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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