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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 nearly 32 years old.

rush is no (wo)man's friend.

@sausagewoman

arts practice
   
since 2020 as sausage woman
   
2025  
upcoming 'Mother and Baby' with Liam Berg - Melbourne Fringe Festival 2025 (City of Melbourne Quick Response Arts Grants)
   
2024 'a peoples #2' @ Assembly Point, Southbank
   
  'Mother' Girl and Girl
   
  Western Artists Mentorship Program w/ Snuff Puppets
   
since 2018 w/ Snuff Puppets
  SWAMP
  'Transsocial'
  'Punch Agathe'
  'The Sticky Specimen Rebellion'
  + roamings
   
2023 Pottery w/ Hiroshige Kato, Seto
   
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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