Olive is all made up

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olive eats a biscuit

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This little fellow is "Bread" that's his name. I created him especially for a piece I created for 'Explode' this November in Melbourne.

Merriville 2010

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C.V.

Updated November 2011

Bronwen Kamasz

bronwenkamasz@hotmail.com

Qualifications and training

Laban workshop with Lucy Angell- Melbourne November 2011

Object Manipulation Workshop with Nenagh Watson- Bristol Festival of Puppetry- UK- August 2011

Bodyweather workshop with Tess DeQuincey-Melbourne July 2011

MB training throughout 2011

Workshops with Giovanni Fusetti – Helikos school – “Journey of Masks” and “Red Nose” Melbourne – June 2011

Image Lab with David Laekin – Melbourne 2011

I Made Sidia – shadow puppetry workshop, Melbourne – April 2011

Bodyweather at Kooyoora with Frank Van de Ven – March 2011

Stomping Ground – Physical theatre training – Zez Zen Zo January 2011

Clown training - with Kate Kantor – Melbourne – in November 2010+ Feb - 2011

Laban workshop – with Lucy Angell – Melbourne – July 2010

Butoh workshop – with Yumi Umiumare – Melbourne – June 2010

Clown peer practice – at Cecil Street Studios, Fridays – Improvisation and skillshare – 2010

Clown training – with Claire Bartholemew – April 16^th - 2010

Physical performance training A whole bunch of clowns One week workshop with

Ira Seidenstein culminating in a showing for Searchlight Festival - February 2010

Physical Actor training – Zen Zen Zo - Suzuki & Viewpoints - Melbourne – 2010, 2011 weekly classes and Winter Stomp

Life Model training – Life Models Society of Victoria – Jan 2010

Completed: Postgrad Diploma in Production - Puppetry at VCA, Melbourne 2009

Hand carving Czech marionettes with Jiri Smitco at Spare Parts Puppet theatre Nov/Dec 2008

Ba Visual Art, Hons 1^st class, Curtin University, Dept of Art, Perth, WA 2003

Advanced Diploma, Art & Design, Central Tafe, Northbridge, WA 2000

Professional Visual Merchandiser, display & exhibition design – ‘on the job’ training

Experiences

Performance research with Kate Hunter – several sessions throughout 2011

Trammin – Greens campaigne – actor -Oct-Dec Melbourne 2011

Round the Corner – Actor- Lamama Melbourne November 2011

Explode # Improvisation - Melbourne November 2011

Butterfly puppets – finishing- Barking Spider – Melbourne Nov 2011

Stories of Sunshine- Puppeteer- Barking Spider-Melbourne Oct 2011

Charleville International Puppetry Festival – France Septembre 2011

Artist residency-paf-France-Septembre 2011

Bristol Festival of Puppetry UK August 2011

Olive and the Guilts at the Empress Melbourne July 2011

Goof Booth – Clown act for Candelo Village Festival – NSW - March – 2011

Roving Puppeteer – East Fremantle Festival – Perth – Western Australia –

December 2010

Puppeteer – Performance – Woodend – Melbourne 2010

Clowns Without Borders Australia Project – Performance – Westside Circus – Melbourne – November 2010

When the Bough Breaks – puppeteer for Eliza Beck, RMIT, Melbourne November 2010

Before I fell Asleep – puppeteer, maker, assistant for Lara Tumac VCA, Melbourne 2010 and continuing development in 2011

Merriville – ensemble performer, co-creator, Melbourne Fringe Festival, October 2010

Olive – writer, director, maker, puppeteer - solo performance for Merriville

Edible Little Peeps - for - Object manipulation research Lab – Performer, researcher - This Is Not Art festival - Newcastle,NSW - October 2010

Little Golden Things – writer, performer - Storytelling at Soft Belly Bar – Melbourne - August 8^th - 2010

Mr drysdale – Puppet making assistant for Conor Fox – June 2010

Dreaming at the G – Maker assistant, Puppeteer – May 2010

Silence – Puppeteer – LaMama Melbourne – May/June 2010

Dreaming at the G – Puppeteer and assistant maker – May 2010

La Dolce Italia – Giacomo e Rosa, roving marionette performance – devisor, performer; puppet designer and maker - Carleton – Melbourne - 28^th February 2010

Jacob Boehme – assistant puppet maker for Lu’arn as part of Nexus at Gasworks – Nov 2009 & Moomba festival - January 2010

Ceres – Kingfisher Festival – puppet maker and performer Nov 2009

Jenny Pfieffer – Phd puppetry project – cross cultural exchange – puppeteer, research assistant - 2009/2010

Company Hayloft.- Puppet maker – a nearly dead pigeon – for B.C - Nov 2009

Shackleton Project – Maker, puppeteer – Grant St Theatre – VCA - Oct-Nov 2009

It’s cold up there, Curator, Installation of screen based visual art - King St ARI, Melbourne Fringe Festival Sept/Oct 2009

Seewell Family Cabaret – Maker, puppeteer – Melbourne Fringe Festival –Sept 2009

Scotchmer St Experiment – Performer, Puppeteer, 15^th August 2009

The Clearing, Puppetry Solo, Grant Street Theatre, VCA June 2009

Casual lecturer for Tafe in Visual Art – including children’s classes, young adult classes and adult classes in a variety of visual art disciplines including sculpture, drawing and design. 2007 and 2008 Perth

Live art at Moores A series of Scratch Performances at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery – March 1^st & 2^nd 2008 Perth

Writing

Unima Magazine – Article- Charleville Festival Dec issue 2011

Open - article – Bristol Festival of Puppetry October issue 2011

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My first Puppetry gig for 2010 was Giacomo e Rosa a roving performance for La dolce Italia 2010 in Carleton with Paola Aguanta and 2 Czech style marionettes (I made Rosa in late 2008)

I worked on creating these glorious swan puppets designed by Jenny Ellis for Jacob Boheme - this is Moomba

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Edible Little Peeps a performance piece for Object Manipulation Research lab at TINA 2010 where I created puppetty creatures from foodstuffs - experimenting with a soldering iron: lollies and sugar as an adhesive - for 27 hours straight

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These puppets I created for my solo show Olive that I wrote, directed and performed as a site specific piece for Merriville - a group show created for Melbourne Fringe 2010

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A collage I created for Meredith and Niall from a calender of Colonial Australian paintings.

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Matida and the Thylacine in the midst of the forest.

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Matilda and me looking over the fence, a protective barrier to the Australian bushland beyond.

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This is Matilda from The clearing 2009. She has my own hair but also my thoughts, drawn from childhood experience.