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olivia floate
oliviafloate@gmail.com
@sausagewoman

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)
     
    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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