Camille Ostrowsky
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Designer + Scenographer
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Florescence
Florescence is a series of sculptures exploring the synthesis of artificial plasticity and Earthly design intelligence.
As the ephemeral mirage images of a geometry that escapes the grasping force of the mind; their presence is durable, plastic, their physicality is artificial, product of human technologies. Simultaneously Earthly and alien, their form is both abstract and measured, geometric yet organic.
Florescence sculptures have been exposed at Pack Gallery (Byron Bay, NSW) and Sacred Hearts Festival (NSW).
Breaking
Plates
Short film/documentary
Production designer
Part silent film, part documentary;
‘Breaking Plates’ interrogates and incorporates archive footage from ‘Cinema’s First Nasty Women’ - a collection of 99 European and American silent films starring fierce and wild women characters, seemingly not at all constrained by patriarchal structures.
Best Australian Short Documentary - Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2025 (winner)
APDG Emerging Designer for a Screen Production Award (nominee)
Produced by Richard James Allen & Physical TV
Written & Directed by Karen Pearlman
Cinematography Justine Kerrigan
Costume design Claudia Kryszkiewicz
Design and Construction assistant Ashley Craig
Art department assistants Annika Windsor, Annabelle Silk, Timothy Sharp, Desmond Bravo, Brianna Neowhouse, Valentina Lastrebova, Kate Beere
Starring Violette Ayad, Richard James Allen, Emma Watkins, Julie-Anne Long
Still Photography Gary Compton
A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
The Globe
Large-scale Installation
Opera
Set designer
Music by Benjamin Britten , Op. 64
Libretto adapted from William Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Produced by the National Institute of Dramatic Art and Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Conductor Stephen Mould
Direction Kate Gaul
Costumes Sabina Myers
Lights Sophia Wallace
Associate Set Designer Veronique Benett
Photos by Pollyanna Nowicki
Nida Parade Theatre, 2021
Text Bernard-Marie Koltès
Direction Robert Schuster
Assistant director Marco Damghani
Costumes Olivia Rowlands
Video and lights Aron Murray
Sound Justin Ellis
Production management Valerie Lam
Stage management Morgan Moroney
Technical management Eileen Ortiona
Set design assistant Hayden Relf
Cast: Declan Kelly, Roman Delo, Melissa Kahraman, Jazz Laker, Kira-Che Heelan, Ethan Browne, Fabian McCallum
Photography Patrick Bolan & Aron Murray
Nida Parade Theatre, 2019
Theatre
Set & Costume designer
Text & direction Michael GowVideo and lights Aron Murray
Sound Khyam Cox
Production management Wun Zee
Stage management Mali Tauro-Cesca
Technical management Catherine Imer
Costume supervisor Harriet Ayers
Camera operator & design assistant Soham Apte
Cast: Laura Cameron, Sophie Wilde, Fabian McCallum, Lewis Mcleod, Olivia Mortimer-Eade, Charlotte Freils, Matthew McDonald, Matthew Alexander, Mabel Li, Nicholas Cartwright
Nida, Playhouse Theatre, 2019
DIANA
Live-cinema/theatre
Set & costume designer
DIANA is a tribute to the People’s Princess' turbulent and tormented life, interrogating the relationship between actor, icon and character.
Devised by Tait De Lorenzo & Shannon Dooley
Direction Tait De Lorenzo
Cinematography Lucca Barone-Peters
Lights Jesse Greig
Video Cameron Smit
Stage management Susie Henderson
Cast Shannon Dooley as Diana
Alex Stamell & Skye Willians as camera operators
Nida Festival of Emerging Artists 2018
Clown of Thorns was a one off, site-specific promenade presentation of a new work that explored, through its form and context, a different relationship between a theatre piece and its audience. Delving into the concepts of Trash-thetics (the aesthetics of trash), it was designed spending zero money and using only resources available locally, asking people for help and reusing discarded materials/objects. The scenography relied heavily on the textural and and olfactive qualities of the site. The abject special effects were achieved using food products, which were also consumed throughout the performance. During Act III the power in the whole neighbourhood went out and the audience lit the scene with their smartphones. Act IV was a pot-luck banquet celebration, everyone sat at the table..
Roberto Zucco forgets his name. The sounds of the machine fill his head.
The violence he exercises on the strangers he encounters shocks and perplexes... but what about the social violence that makes up the web of connections between the whole world of the play? It’s an ugly, sharp, mechanical world in which it is easier to point a finger and alienate the one we can name rather than face the monstrous smog of toxicity we spend our lives breathing in.
Text Isaac Forsyth
Direction Marco Damghani
Cast Fabian McCallum, Micaela Ellis & Declan Kelly
Roberto Zucco
Theatre
Set designer
Bondi
Festival 2024
Festival Designer
Bondi
Festival 2025
Festival Designer
Bondi
Festival 2023
Festival Designer
Festival Designer
The Globe is a retired hot air balloon re-invented into an inflatable entity.
It is a performative beast with a light footprint on its environment and awe-inspiring presence.
Our aim is to foster a different relationship between who creates and who watches. Everything about the Globe is performative and the community is invited not only as witnesses, but as evident participants of a spectacular creation.
“Goldilocks Zone: In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone, or Goldilocks Zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure.” < wikipedia
Goldilocks is about alien contact and how we might react when we are faced with the realisation that we aren't so unique after all.
Based on the architecture of the amphitheatre, the scenographic approach was site-specific, oscillating between the lecture hall and the bunker.
Clown of
Thorns
Site-specific theatre, 2019
Set, costume & lighting designer
Creative Directors: Joey Ruigrock van der Werven & Sarah-Jane McGrath
Associate artists: Leisa Mcilwain & Camille Ostrowsky
National Circus Festival, Mullumbimby, 2022
Goldilocks