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olivia floate |
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. |
| 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 |
| website made by me | |