Camille Ostrowsky

Designer + Scenographer

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Florescence

Florescence is a series of sculptures exploring the synthesis of artificial plasticity and Earthly design intelligence.

Florescence sculptures have been exposed at Pack Gallery (Byron Bay, NSW) and Sacred Hearts Festival (NSW), as well as multiple festivals and events across regional NSW.

Bondi

Festival 2025

Colorful decorative butterfly with stained glass-like wings, surrounded by a white geometric framework, displayed in an indoor setting.

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Bondi

Festival 2024

Colorful art installation featuring purple and orange shapes resembling butterfly wings or flower petals, hanging from a ceiling with a wooden slatted roof and white walls.

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Bondi

Festival 2023

A large decorative structure with colorful panels in front of a building with palm trees, a Ferris wheel, and string lights under a clear blue sky.

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Breaking Plates

Short film/documentary

Production designer

A woman standing by a window with sheer curtains, wearing a white robe with a pink sash, inside a dimly lit vintage-style room decorated with framed paintings, plants, and antique furniture.

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.

Awards:
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

The Globe

Large-scale Installation/ performance space

hot air ballon conversion circus installation shadow silhouette rainbow lantern

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. 

Creative Directors: Joey Ruigrock van der Werven & Sarah-Jane McGrath

Associate artists: Leisa Mcilwain & Camille Ostrowsky

National Circus Festival, Mullumbimby, 2022

A Midsummer Night’s

Dream

Opera

Set designer

The image depicts a theatrical performance with a dark background, a large red circle resembling the sun or moon, and multiple performers dressed in white, gray, and colorful costumes. Some performers are posing dynamically, with one holding a balloon, while others are seated on the right in pink attire, watching the scene.

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

Clown of

Thorns

Site-specific theatre, 2019

Set, costume & lighting designer

A theatrical performance in a brick-walled room with a person suspended by ropes and ropes tied to the ceiling, dressed in tattered clothing, and a woman with a painted face and white shirt gesturing towards the performer surrounded by an audience

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..

Text Isaac Forsyth
Direction Marco Damghani
Cast Fabian McCallum, Micaela Ellis & Declan Kelly

Roberto Zucco

Theatre

Set designer

Stage set for a theater or performance, with a tiered platform, staircase, and colorful lighting, featuring performers rehearsing or preparing.

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 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

Goldilocks

Theatre

Set & Costume designer

A woman and a man are conducting a science experiment with plants in a dimly lit room. The woman is standing on the left, observing, while the man on the right is gesturing towards the plants, which are under a bright light.

“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.

Text & direction Michael Gow
Video 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

A person is getting ready backstage with makeup artists and stylists preparing for a photoshoot or performance, with a white background and shoes on a table.

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