Born Melbourne, 1968
- 1999Master of Arts in Fine Art by Research RMIT University
- 1995Professional Qualification in `Tecnica Pittura Murale’ at the Laboratorio per Affresco
di Vainella in Italy
- 1994Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, RMIT University
Graduate Diploma in Italian Studies, La Trobe University
- 1988Bachelor of Fine Art, Drawing Major, Victoria College
Solo Exhibitions
- 2016Influxus, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
- 2015Traverse, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
- 2014Quiet/Disquiet, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
- 2013Surface of Last Scattering, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
- 2011At the Edge of the Known World, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
- 2009Liminal, Wilson St Gallery, Sydney
- 2008Penumbra, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
- 2006Between Worlds, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
- 2004Nostalgia, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery & Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
- 2003Temporality, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
- 2001Sarah Tomasetti, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
- 1999Iconic Imprints, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
- 1996The Love and Water Series, BMG Art, Adelaide
- 1994Sarah Tomasetti, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
- 1991Sarah Tomasetti, The Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2017Flow. Counihan Gallery, Melbourne. Part of ClimARTE 2017
- 2016Three Women Went to China. With Hanna Kay and Su Archer.Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre and Tamworth Regional Gallery NSW
- 2015The Warming, art+climate=change event across 23 Victorian venues, (Australian Galleries, Melbourne in collaboration with Climarte)
- 2014Melbourne Art Fair with Beaver Galleries. Peak/Melt Sequence
- 2014‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
- 2013Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing #3, New York Studio School, New York
- 2013The 42nd Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW
- 2012From Paper, Janet Clayton Gallery at Beijing Artspace, Beijing, China
- 2012Contemporary Australian Drawing 2: Drawing as notation, text and discovery. University for the Arts, London
- 2012The Lure of the Landscape. Wilson St Gallery at Danks, Sydney
- 2011Salon des Refuses. SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney
- 2011Intimate. Wilson St Gallery at Danks, Sydney
- 2010Something in the Air. 27 Gipps Street Richmond, Melbourne
- 2010Contemporary Australian Drawings I. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
- 2010Magnetic Islands. Project Space RMIT University, Melbourne
- 2010Salon des Refuses. SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney
- 2009Text, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney
- 2009Same, same, but different. Kristian Pithie Gallery, Melbourne
- 2005ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award Exhibition
- 2003SixPlusOne, Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne Nillumbik Art Prize, Nilumbik, VIC
- 2002Drawings from the Collection, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
- 2001INSAP III, Palermo, Italy
- 1999Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
Retrospecta III, Pallas Society, Melbourne
- 1998RMIT Fine Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Hi/lo Exotico, Columbian Collaboration, Stop 22, Melbourne
Le Panto, Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne
- 1997Retrospecta II, Pallas Society, Melbourne
- 1996Galleria del Commune, Monterchi, Italy
- 1995The Last Show, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
- 1994Postgraduate Exhibition, Pitspace RMIT, Bundoora
ACAF 4, Exhibition Buildings Melbourne
Indwelling, Temple Studio, Melbourne
- 1990The Drawing Show, Reflections Gallery, Melbourne
Open Door Exhibition, 52 Australian Painters, Sotheby’s Australia
Crowful, The Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
- 1988York Street Print-makers, The York Street Gallery, Melbourne
Collections
- Artbank
- Collection of Arthur Roe
- Chartered Secretaries Australia
- Macquarie Bank
- National Australia Bank
- Grafton Regional Gallery
- Newcastle Regional Museum
- Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home
- Private collections in Australia, Spain, Italy and the United States of America
Bibliography
- Gorringe Smith, Kate. Review of Flow. Imprint magazine May 2017
- Art +Climate=Change Edited by Guy Abrahams, Bronwyn Johnson and Kelly Gellatly. Melbourne University Press 2016
- Luise Guest Catalogue Essay, Three women went to China, 2016
- Sasha Grishin Review of Influxus, Canberra Times, May 2016
- Luise Guest, Review of Traverse, The Art Life, November 2015
- Sasha Grishin, It's all in the technique, Canberra Times, April 1st 2013
- Janet Mc Kenzie, Contemporary Australian Drawings, Macmillan 2012
- Dan Rule, Review, The Age A2, Saturday April 17th 2010
- Heather Ellyard, On Sarah Tomasetti, Essay for the Wilson St Gallery quarterly magazine, Summer 08/09
- Rachel Power, Penumbra catalogue Essay, 2008
- Rachel Power, The Divided Heart, Red Dog Books 2008
- Maurizio Toscano, Between Worlds Essay, 2006
- Penny Webb, Atmospheric Pressure, The Age, 13 November 2006
- Jeffrey Makin, Review, Herald Sun, 15 February 2003
- Heather Ellyard, Sarah Tomasetti, Catalogue Essay, Christine Abrahams Gallery, 2001
- Peter Timms, Dealer’s Shows: Melbourne, The Art Newspaper, No.116, July-August 2001
- Heather Ellyard, Iconic Imprints, Catalogue Essay, La Trobe Street Gallery, 1999
Grants and Awards
- 2016Shortlisted, John Leslie Prize for Landscape
- 2014Shortlisted Paul Guest Prize for Drawing
- 2014Arts Victoria Artists in schools grant with artist Heather Hesterman and Spensley St Primary School.
- 2014Shortlisted, John Leslie prize for landscape. Gippsland Art Gallery.
- 2013Shortlisted. Fleurieu Prize for Landscape. South Australia.
- 2013Shortlisted. The 42nd Muswellbrook Art Prize, NSW.
Travel
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2012
- China:
- Travel in China with artists Hanna Kay and Suzanne Archer in preparation for collaborative exhibition to tour Australian and China 2014-15
1994
- Italy:
- 6 month Fresco Painting internship, Laboratorio per Affresco di Vainella, Prato, Italy
1990
- Italy:
- Independent Study at the University per Stranieri, Perugia
- USA:
- Bookbinding internship, Book Conservation Department,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Fiji:
- 6 month Artist-in-Residency, Sociology Department,Monash University