https://sarahtomasetti.com.au Sarah Tomasetti Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:03:40 +0000 https://sarahtomasetti.com.au en https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Front-page-2 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:08:56 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Front-page-2 https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Work-Thumbnails Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:16:47 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Work-Thumbnails Selected Exhibitions https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/About-2 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 01:41:30 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/About-2 About I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation who are the traditional custodians of the land on which my studio stands. I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that this land was never ceded. &nbsp;I also acknowledge the Noongar Peoples on whose land the limestone at the centre of this material process is quarried and slaked. Sarah Tomasetti is a specialist in medieval material technologies such as fresco, encaustic, sgraffito and stucco lucido, holding a technical qualification from Laboratorio Tintori in Prato, Italy. Her doctoral research examines how working with the matter-energy of slaked lime that requires the slow sensing of moisture, temperature and molecular interaction, can constitute a correspondence and entanglement with the living world through making. Recent works explore diverse mountain imaginaries, examining how cultural narratives inflect the ways imagine, traverse, worship and destroy mountainous regions, and how engaging ancient material agencies through art practice can re-sensitise relations with the more than human world.&nbsp; Sarah is a lecturer in Fine Art at RMIT University and currently Co-lead of Painting. EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art, RMIT University2023 Master of Arts in Fine Art by Research RMIT University 1999 Professional Qualification in `Tecnica Pittura Murale’ at the Laboratorio per Affresco di Vainella in Italy1995 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, RMIT University1994 Graduate Diploma in Italian Studies, La Trobe University1994 Bachelor of Fine Art, Drawing Major, Victoria College1988 SOLO EXHIBITIONS &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sediments and Atmospheres, Australian Galleries, Melbourne2025 Breathing Stone, Australian Galleries, Melbourne2023 Celestial Ground, Beaver Galleries, Canberra2022 Wayfaring, Beaver Galleries, Canberra2019 Postcard from the Roof of the World, Australian Galleries 2018 Silver Mountain, The Art Vault, Mildura2018 Influxus, Beaver Galleries, Canberra2016 Traverse, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney2015 Quiet/Disquiet, Australian Galleries, Melbourne2014 Surface of Last Scattering, Beaver Galleries, Canberra2013 At the Edge of the Known World, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney2011 Liminal, Wilson St Gallery, Sydney2009 Penumbra, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne2008 Between Worlds, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne2006 Nostalgia, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery &amp; Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW2004 Temporality, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 2003 Sarah Tomasetti, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne2001 Iconic Imprints, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne1999 The Love and Water Series, BMG Art, Adelaide1996 Sarah Tomasetti, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne1994 Sarah Tomasetti, The Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne1991 GROUP EXHIBITIONS Nightfall, The Darkness Project with Fleur Summers&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2025 The Anxiety Project, Dax Centre, University of Melbourne &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2024 Stone Heart, VVREN Gallery, Melbourne &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2024 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rituals of Embodied Knowing, CBONE Gallery, Melbourne2023The Living Birrarung, Chapman and Bailey Gallery, Melbourne2022 Groupings Great and Small, Australian Galleries, Melbourne2020 Herbaceous Borders, Curated by Kate Mizrahi Block Projects Melbourne2018 Edge, An exhibition of Drawings. Langford 120, North Melbourne2018 Flow. Counihan Gallery, Melbourne. Part of ClimARTE 20172017 Three Women Went to China. With Hanna Kay and Su Archer. Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre and Tamworth Regional Gallery NSW2016 The Warming, ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE event across 23 Victorian venues, (Australian Galleries, Melbourne in collaboration with Climarte) 2015 Melbourne Art Fair with Beaver Galleries. Peak/Melt Sequence 2014 ‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne2014 Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing #3, New York Studio School, New York2013 The 42nd Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW2013 From Paper, Janet Clayton Gallery at Beijing Artspace, Beijing, China2012 Contemporary Australian Drawing 2: Drawing as notation, text and discovery, University for the Arts, London2012 The Lure of the Landscape, Wilson St Gallery at Danks, Sydney2012 Salon des Refuses, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney2011 Intimate, Wilson St Gallery at Danks, Sydney2011 Something in the Air, 27 Gipps Street Richmond, Melbourne2010 Contemporary Australian Drawings I, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne2010 Magnetic Islands, Project Space RMIT University, Melbourne2010 Salon des Refuses, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney2010 Text, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney2009 Same, same, but different, Kristian Pithie Gallery, Melbourne 2009 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award Exhibition2005 Melbourne Nillumbik Art Prize, Nilumbik.2003 Drawings from the Collection, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW2002 INSAP III, Palermo, Italy 2001 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW 1999 Retrospecta III, Pallas Society, Melbourne1999 RMIT Fine Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong1998 Hi/lo Exotico, Columbian Collaboration, Stop 22, Melbourne1998 Le Panto, Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne1998 Retrospecta II, Pallas Society, Melbourne1997 Galleria del Commune, Monterchi, Italy1996 The Last Show, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne1995 Postgraduate Exhibition, Pitspace RMIT, Bundoora1994 ACAF 4, Exhibition Buildings Melbourne 1994 Indwelling, Temple Studio, Melbourne1994 The Drawing Show, Reflections Gallery, Melbourne 1990 Open Door Exhibition, 52 Australian Painters, Sotheby’s Australia 1990 Crowful, The Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne 1990 York Street Print-makers, The York Street Gallery, Melbourne 1988 COLLECTIONS Artbank Collection of Arthur Roe Chartered Secretaries Australia Macquarie Bank National Australia Bank Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC Newcastle Regional Museum NSW Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home Private collections in Australia, Spain, Italy and the United States of America GRANTS Art Seeking Understanding.A project funded by the Templeton Trust looking at the enactment of ritual in artistic practice.2021-22 Artists in Schools Grant with Heather Hesterman and Spensley St Primary School, Arts Victoria and the Victorian Education Department2014 Scholarship from the Region of Tuscany to study fresco and restoration techniques at the Laboratorio di Vainella in Prato, Italy 1995 AWARDS Shortlisted, Gosford Art Prize,Gosford NSW2021 Winner, John Leslie Prize for Landscape, Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC2020 Highly Commended and Acquired, Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery NSW2020 Shortlisted, R&amp;M McGivern Prize on the Anthropocene, Maroondah City Council, VIC2019 Shortlisted, Fleurieu Prize for Landscape, South Australia2018 Invited The Kedumba Drawing Award Orange Regional Gallery, NSW2017 Shortlisted, John Leslie Prize for Landscape, Gippsland Art Gallery2016 Shortlisted, Paul Guest Prize for Drawing, Bendigo Art Gallery2014 Shortlisted, John Leslie Prize for Landscape, Gippsland Art Gallery2014 Shortlisted, Fleurieu Prize for Landscape, South Australia2013 The 42nd Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre NSW2013 Selected Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney2011 Shortlisted, Tattersalls Landscape Prize, Brisbane2011 Selected Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney2010 Shortlisted The Heysen Prize, The Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, SA2009 Shortlisted ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award Exhibition2005 Shortlisted, Nillumbik Art Prize, Nillumbik, VIC2003 Acquired Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW1999 Funded Residencies and Fieldwork The Fremantle Arts Centre Residency with Perdita Phillips and Pennt Coss &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2025 The Kenneth Myer Artist Residency, South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2024 Collaborative research trip to the village of Bemni in Uttarakhand, India, with Anthropologist Dr Jane Dyson from the University of Melbourne, funded by ARC Discovery Grant 2019 Residency and Exhibition The Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria2018 Research trip to Japan – mountains in Shinto philosophy, Keihoku Region2018 Research trip to New Zealand for the exhibition Quiet/Disquiet and the project Slow Melt for ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE, 2015 2013 Research trip to Guilin Province, China for Three Women went to China at Muswellbrook and Tamworth Regional Galleries, 20162012 Research trip to Italy for study of medieval astronomy and frescoes1999 Language Study at the University per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy1992 Bookbinding internship, University of Michigan, USA1992 6 month Artist-in-Residency Quamea Island, Fiji with the Sociology Department, Monash University1990 https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Bibliography-2 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 01:36:34 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Bibliography-2 Bibliography Breathing Stone.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;LANDING. Journal of the Vilnius Academy of the Arts, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lithuania&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2025 Interview with&nbsp;Dr Meredith Lake Soul Search,&nbsp;ABC Radio National&nbsp; 2022 Be transported to a Celestial Realm Review of Celestial Ground. Sasha Grishin, Canberra Times 2021 Sarah Tomasetti wins John Leslie Art Prize Yasmine Masi, Art Collector Magazine &nbsp;2020 Review of Wayfaring Sasha Grishin, Canberra Times 2019 Sarah Tomasetti, Fresco Painter&nbsp; Mark Newbound, Short Film 2018 Fragile Grandeur&nbsp; Kate Gorringe-Smith,&nbsp;Catalogue Essay 2018 Review of Flow Kate Gorringe-Smith, Imprint Magazine 2017 Art +Climate=Change Edited by Guy Abrahams, Bronwyn Johnson &amp; Kelly Gellatly, Melbourne University Press 2016 Three women went to China Luise Guest,&nbsp;Catalogue Essay 2016 Review of Influxus Sasha Grishin, Canberra Times 2016 Review of Traverse Luise Guest, The Art Life 2015 It's all in the technique Sasha Grishin, Canberra Times 2013 Contemporary Australian Drawings Janet McKenzie,&nbsp;Macmillan 2012 Review Dan Rule,&nbsp;The Age 2010 On Sarah Tomasetti Heather Ellyard,&nbsp;Wilson Street Gallery Quarterly Magazine 08/09 Penumbra&nbsp; Rachel Power, Catalogue Essay 2008 The Divided Heart Rachel Power,&nbsp;Red Dog Books 2008 Between Worlds&nbsp; Maurizio Toscano, Essay 2006 Atmospheric Pressure Penny Webb, The Age 2006 Review Jeffrey Makin, Herald Sun 2003 Sarah Tomasetti&nbsp; Heather Ellyard, Catalogue Essay,&nbsp;Christine Abrahams Gallery 2001 Dealer’s Shows: Melbourne Peter Timms,&nbsp;The Art Newspaper, No.116 2001 Iconic Imprints&nbsp; Heather Ellyard,&nbsp;Catalogue Essay,&nbsp;La Trobe Street Gallery 1999 https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Sediments-and-Atmospheres-2025 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:03:40 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Sediments-and-Atmospheres-2025 Sediments and Atmospheres 2025. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I pay my respects to the Ngāi Tahu, whose lands in Te Waka-o-Aoraki in Aotearoa/New Zealand I was grateful to visit in May 2024. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f1c6ace4aa2ea3c0df34ec9c123765ffe91926ff1ae0c82a3d41da844c0c364/Sarah-Tomasetti-Study-for-Galactic-Peak-Dusk-I.jpg" data-mid="240153130" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f1c6ace4aa2ea3c0df34ec9c123765ffe91926ff1ae0c82a3d41da844c0c364/Sarah-Tomasetti-Study-for-Galactic-Peak-Dusk-I.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1048" width_o="2500" height_o="1048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32d3fecf8d6252d48dd1b1fbc9ec8167b4af6dad50ca80fa78eab924785e5661/Sarah-Tomasetti-Study-for-Galactic-Peak-Dusk-II.jpg" data-mid="240153132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32d3fecf8d6252d48dd1b1fbc9ec8167b4af6dad50ca80fa78eab924785e5661/Sarah-Tomasetti-Study-for-Galactic-Peak-Dusk-II.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1040" width_o="2500" height_o="1040" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c08bece77eb58df4e035132568c93b9d7b0b8400f4d246766d0253ebfe0fb1f1/Sarah-Tomasetti-Study-for-Galactic-Peak-Dawn-II.jpg" data-mid="240153131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c08bece77eb58df4e035132568c93b9d7b0b8400f4d246766d0253ebfe0fb1f1/Sarah-Tomasetti-Study-for-Galactic-Peak-Dawn-II.jpg" /> This body of work is drawn from a period spent watching the autumn weather and light sweep across the alpine landscape, courtesy of the Kenneth Myer Artist Residency on the South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. In the studio, the material at the heart of fresco making is slaked lime, itself born of a limestone landscape at one with water, with its origins in the ancient seabed. Mixed with an aggregate such as sand or marble dust, it becomes sedimentary over the 24-hour period of curing, full of tiny stone like fissures that echo the bedrock of the mountain. Brushed onto a fresco surface, slaked lime becomes an atmospheric echo of the weather world; mixed with vermillion pigment it’s the shy dawn light or tinted with azurite and carbon it might resemble a descending snowstorm. The fresco plaster is laid over washed muslin which enables removal from the wall after curing – together these form a fresco skin. The addition of encaustic wax renders the slaked lime transparent whilst also protecting the delicate patterns that give each skin it’s character. Pigments added to the fresco skins reflect the intense reds and greens of the vegetation found in the icy tarns, and produce their own sedimentary patterning, such as long curved lines for raw umber or radiating lines for chromium oxide.&nbsp; Skins cut into the shape of wayfinding arrows mark movements in a pathless landscape. These were the first things I made whilst on residency after the departure of our mountain guide and laying them out became a way to grow familiarity with the topography through a slow material connection to the ground. The paintings arise at the intersection of the unpredictable materiality of fresco making, and a commitment to close observation of the structure of the mountain range as captured in sequences of photographs and video shot at different times of day. No part of the form is invented, rather I am interested in finding strangeness within the rhythmic rise and fall of the earth’s formation over deep time. The length of the residency and the position of Whare Kea Chalet provided an unprecedented opportunity to observe the Southern Alps transforming through the shapeshifting of water at altitude, in other words, the sacred snowfall. Acknowledgements Big thanks to Martyn and Louise Myer for creating and then so generously sharing the unique sites of Whare Kea Lodge and Chalet with recipients of the Kenneth Myer Residency.&nbsp; Thanks also to the staff at Aspiring Helicopter for bringing us safely up and down through the Matukituki Valley, Monika Bischof from Wanaka Mountain Guides for teaching us how to navigate the terrain and Gillian Boyes for arranging everything. My thanks also to Monika Ciolek for her company and insightful research and advice, Maurizio Toscano for guiding the work as always, Steven Rendall for professional support and Stuart Purves and the staff at Australian Galleries. Installation shots are by Emma Byrnes and single works have been photographed by Les Walkling.&nbsp; Sarah Tomasetti 2025 https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Wayfinders-2024 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 02:44:59 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Wayfinders-2024 Wayfinders, 2024I pay my respects to the Ngāi Tahu, whose lands in Te Waka-o-Aoraki in Aotearoa/New Zealand I was grateful to visit in May 2024. Observing the tapu status of the mountain in Māori lore, I acknowledge the importance of the ancestral mountain Tititea, brother of Aoraki, and stand in support of the Tino rangatiratanga of their descendants, as recognised in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. <img width="6240" height="3504" width_o="6240" height_o="3504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89aab2d64d955f2bf2338c73f2db71ac7f3e6d1bd24848254299f853bfe8389b/Wayfinders-9.jpg" data-mid="223087353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89aab2d64d955f2bf2338c73f2db71ac7f3e6d1bd24848254299f853bfe8389b/Wayfinders-9.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="2268" width_o="4032" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77714c69610f5e80033086ae8b8c1d41fc77675b3df2c93be51c9c0a9ff879b3/Wayfinders-3.jpg" data-mid="223087357" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77714c69610f5e80033086ae8b8c1d41fc77675b3df2c93be51c9c0a9ff879b3/Wayfinders-3.jpg" /> <img width="5712" height="3213" width_o="5712" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bb14a56a9777aea2a6764160eced40a701cc33bb8fcbbcf138b9aa93bc0e714/Wayfinders-4.jpg" data-mid="223087358" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bb14a56a9777aea2a6764160eced40a701cc33bb8fcbbcf138b9aa93bc0e714/Wayfinders-4.jpg" /> <img width="6240" height="3504" width_o="6240" height_o="3504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bed186d0b4037f3207fab36b9b43ed6f5f41aef486aa147865a1b7c2ad57db72/Wayfinders-5.jpg" data-mid="223087359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bed186d0b4037f3207fab36b9b43ed6f5f41aef486aa147865a1b7c2ad57db72/Wayfinders-5.jpg" /> <img width="5712" height="3213" width_o="5712" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5c0424fe2c282e9f5a52a087b13f199a6730ce49bef618bd6ea57e94df611d6/Wayfinders-7.jpg" data-mid="223087360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5c0424fe2c282e9f5a52a087b13f199a6730ce49bef618bd6ea57e94df611d6/Wayfinders-7.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="2268" width_o="4032" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/064331082464f640ca84c261a23a4c03af63dfbf5ad590e5bdd5f121f7e40293/Wayfinders-8.jpg" data-mid="223087361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/064331082464f640ca84c261a23a4c03af63dfbf5ad590e5bdd5f121f7e40293/Wayfinders-8.jpg" /> <img width="6240" height="3504" width_o="6240" height_o="3504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c66446e2c9ceeb6b2e208c986ef50147b52d029210b90c71572439d6347fa94/Wayfinders-10.jpg" data-mid="223087363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c66446e2c9ceeb6b2e208c986ef50147b52d029210b90c71572439d6347fa94/Wayfinders-10.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="2268" width_o="4032" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa1094c46aa5b2cb2a8bd70bd6a64641256cd7c4bb790dfb9d4e48eabd2946a8/Wayfinders-2.jpg" data-mid="223087356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa1094c46aa5b2cb2a8bd70bd6a64641256cd7c4bb790dfb9d4e48eabd2946a8/Wayfinders-2.jpg" /> <img width="6240" height="3504" width_o="6240" height_o="3504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abfd8ac1babcaa3fdb7db7dc4ee94d1625c8517a55019dea1a6e63436352bbc6/Wayfinders-11.JPG" data-mid="223087367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abfd8ac1babcaa3fdb7db7dc4ee94d1625c8517a55019dea1a6e63436352bbc6/Wayfinders-11.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="2268" width_o="4032" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80d678e7dd26c1327ba021a00c38b5f777a2fd565ad560540480aa6ae5084fdb/Wayfinders-0.jpg" data-mid="223087354" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80d678e7dd26c1327ba021a00c38b5f777a2fd565ad560540480aa6ae5084fdb/Wayfinders-0.jpg" /> Acknowledgements For processing and printing of photographs in the landscape for exhibition, I thank the legendary Les Walkling. For the invitation to exhibit these images and the wayfinders themselves as part of The Anxiety Project at The Art Room and later at the Dax centre, I thank artists Erika Gofton, Ilona Nelson, Jacqui Stockdale and Betra Farval. This work would not have been possible without the Kenneth Myer Residency awarded by Martyn and Louise Myer at the Whare Kea Chalet in May 2023. Research into the Maori history of the area has been facilitated by Ben Taylor and Monika Ciolek. A further iteration of the Wayfinders will be exhibited at Australian Galleries in 2025. Wayfinders&nbsp; The stone skin moved out of the studio in the form of metaphoric way finders situated in the landscape during an artist residency in New Zealand, a meditation on the loss of the cryosphere and the consequent experience of losing one’s way. The way finders meander, point towards each other or swirl in arcs towards an empty centre like a flock. I cut the wayfinding arrows from fresco skins as a way of navigating the strangeness of a new landscape through making a material connection to the ground.&nbsp; Out walking, I placed them in patches of snow, along frozen tarns and gullies, a small visual intervention to grow familiarity with the topography through slow looking. &nbsp; Each stain is drawn from the colour of the sky, stone, or vegetation recorded at different times of the day and night. The various sizes recede, echoing the elastic nature of distance in the mountains or the movement of wind barbs on a meteorological chart. The rhythmic making of the arrows created a relationship between the present, my childhood visiting Switzerland, and a deeper ancestral past, in which my forebears created frescoed wayfaring shrines along high-altitude paths, where offerings could be made to ensure safe passage. Laid out in the sun, rapid melting confined the way finders to an ever-diminishing patch of snow moving our awareness towards disintegration and change, away from an idea of the singularly transcendent towards an experience of the immanence of the world, a “matter-flow” (Ingold 2012). On our last night at the chalet, I laid them out on the outside table under gently falling snow and in the morning, they were frozen stiff and could be laid into grooves made with an egg slice in the snow.&nbsp; We dug them out from below and arranged them into a playful topography – these images became emblematic of the time at Whare Kea Chalet and the sense of renewal brought by the rapidly transforming landscape. Sarah Tomasetti&nbsp; 2024 https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Whare-Kea-work-in-progress-2024 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 02:38:26 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Whare-Kea-work-in-progress-2024 Whare Kea (work in progress), 2024 I pay my respects to the Ngāi Tahu, whose lands in Te Waka-o-Aoraki in Aotearoa/New Zealand I was grateful to visit in May 2024. Observing the tapu status of the mountain in Māori lore, I acknowledge the importance of the ancestral mountain Tititea, brother of Aoraki, and stand in support of the Tino rangatiratanga of their descendants, as recognised in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. <img width="4724" height="3375" width_o="4724" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/126ec8221300c7bba9c7f82cb2aefa4d9b1754d72a770f633d77af5276750e63/Floating-between-long-white-clouds-1.JPG" data-mid="223087323" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/126ec8221300c7bba9c7f82cb2aefa4d9b1754d72a770f633d77af5276750e63/Floating-between-long-white-clouds-1.JPG" /> <img width="2833" height="1456" width_o="2833" height_o="1456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3ca194819abf39444b0bf990ab3bcf335a1b6d872172dd797d13cbaa380d6ca/2Floating-between-long-white-clouds.jpg" data-mid="223690248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3ca194819abf39444b0bf990ab3bcf335a1b6d872172dd797d13cbaa380d6ca/2Floating-between-long-white-clouds.jpg" /> <img width="4724" height="3149" width_o="4724" height_o="3149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9d1fc6ac643c14d4f6277a06ad919207e41d33444978a73a480d18572a19e07/sarah_highres-76.JPG" data-mid="223087350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9d1fc6ac643c14d4f6277a06ad919207e41d33444978a73a480d18572a19e07/sarah_highres-76.JPG" /> <img width="3271" height="3068" width_o="3271" height_o="3068" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ab92b2606a81876b61709047ff55132b320d0da540dfd8d8505486e42b29841/TititeaMt-Aspiring-in-cloud.-Slate-surface.JPG" data-mid="223087342" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ab92b2606a81876b61709047ff55132b320d0da540dfd8d8505486e42b29841/TititeaMt-Aspiring-in-cloud.-Slate-surface.JPG" /> <img width="4718" height="2449" width_o="4718" height_o="2449" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88ec1e0ad302b40a41ae293b363a98b68f5bd73ec1d0e50001115f0cabeb875e/walls-works-2.JPG" data-mid="223087343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88ec1e0ad302b40a41ae293b363a98b68f5bd73ec1d0e50001115f0cabeb875e/walls-works-2.JPG" /> <img width="4724" height="3650" width_o="4724" height_o="3650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3501e950a426c6983ac37987a271a2ac958c06d67468cb0e86de169c56443da4/Galactic-Peak-Series.JPG" data-mid="223087322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3501e950a426c6983ac37987a271a2ac958c06d67468cb0e86de169c56443da4/Galactic-Peak-Series.JPG" /> <img width="4724" height="3150" width_o="4724" height_o="3150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/172059709417dd08380a1de8a7cd9147dee5915047bdd44188cdc32ac0bb5fad/fresco-collage.JPG" data-mid="223087327" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/172059709417dd08380a1de8a7cd9147dee5915047bdd44188cdc32ac0bb5fad/fresco-collage.JPG" /> <img width="3149" height="4724" width_o="3149" height_o="4724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a5e308d81eca98747cebce0f507bc15772fd63de0fa6de281f27f593336bdc1/collage-stack-with-detail-of-mountain-in-background.JPG" data-mid="223087321" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a5e308d81eca98747cebce0f507bc15772fd63de0fa6de281f27f593336bdc1/collage-stack-with-detail-of-mountain-in-background.JPG" /> <img width="1786" height="2500" width_o="1786" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44f67dce9b020ede3af7a4836ac1ff0b16463bf6c50a572c8f57f08c02305ebb/sarah_lowres-117.jpg" data-mid="223087348" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44f67dce9b020ede3af7a4836ac1ff0b16463bf6c50a572c8f57f08c02305ebb/sarah_lowres-117.jpg" /> <img width="3650" height="4724" width_o="3650" height_o="4724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b9afa1f9f307e8a8bd3810d8ca1abeaf89c795e5194387627d1d7c8f01b0f48/sarah_highres-53.JPG" data-mid="223087347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b9afa1f9f307e8a8bd3810d8ca1abeaf89c795e5194387627d1d7c8f01b0f48/sarah_highres-53.JPG" /> <img width="4724" height="3150" width_o="4724" height_o="3150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/064cc02e0e4ab921c57e81a3cbc78bc687e442a32f391e47d1800d2636909dff/Banners-WK-series.JPG" data-mid="224037149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/064cc02e0e4ab921c57e81a3cbc78bc687e442a32f391e47d1800d2636909dff/Banners-WK-series.JPG" /> Acknowledgments I am indebted to Martyn and Louise Myer for the opportunity to undertake the Kenneth Myer artist/writer residency at the Whare Kea Chalet on the edge of the Tititea/Mt Aspiring National Park, the lands of the Ngai Tahu.For research on Maori lore of the area, I thank Monika Ciolek who was my companion and collaborator during the second half of the residency and her partner Ben Taylor.All studio shots courtesy of Emma Byrnes of heartland projects. Whare Kea works in progress This series is evolving into two distinct bodies of work; one white and atmospheric in response to the snows coming in, and the second richly coloured in response to both the geology and vegetation of the area.&nbsp; With the latter series single pigments are mixed into the slaked lime render and then encaustic wax is applied to the fresco skin once removed from the wall, to reveal the craquelure within, which alters its quality according to the pigment used. By layering the skins I aim to bring forward the intense red and green of tiny plants in the tarns, the grey brown variations of stone, the golden tussock at dawn and the cool dark sky at night. &nbsp;The fresco collages are quick notations released from the constraints of representation. Waxed latte di calce(milk of the lime) resembles the lichen growths known as vegetable sheep, always situated on the edge where the rockface turns from horizontal to vertical, presumably to avoid the hooves and teeth of roving animals. The paintings of the mountainline are begun buonfresco, on damp plaster using raw pigments in pairs, one warm one cool; such as slate and smalt, red ochre and lapis lazuli, or raw umber and indigo with transparent red gold oxide.&nbsp; Where necessary to continue forming the image after the skin has cured, these are continued a secco with the same pigments in oil and solvent.&nbsp; Tititea/Mt Aspiring and Aoraki/Mt Cook appear wreathed in cloud in deference to their tapu status as ancestor brothers in Maori lore.&nbsp; https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Breathing-Stone-2023 Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:24:16 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Breathing-Stone-2023 Breathing Stone, 2023 Australian Galleries 28 Derby Street, Collingwood VIC 3066 <img width="2000" height="1250" width_o="2000" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b82da8bc9294a6c698a6bbc8e0e03438636ea08e71d639c3195e7e4f0b4ff361/Breathing-Stone-installation-shot-with-geo-luminescence-1.jpg" 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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:Maurizio Toscano – for unstinting vision and support. https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Rituals-of-Embodied-Knowing-2023 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:25:08 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/Rituals-of-Embodied-Knowing-2023 The Upside-down River Rituals of Embodied Knowing, 2023 cbOne Gallery Chapman &amp; Bailey 1C Marine Parade, Abbotsford <img width="3149" height="4724" width_o="3149" height_o="4724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/236daa8b145941cdcb96f46b957157b6a4142dd871f5e556dfcff966d7788657/sarah_highres-105.jpg" data-mid="172336539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/236daa8b145941cdcb96f46b957157b6a4142dd871f5e556dfcff966d7788657/sarah_highres-105.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4154293a4acdc0ca3c1081a99a07554c4888c0bc0ea4b7a8d360583dd89cbd0/sarah_lowres-59.jpg" data-mid="172336559" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38c976f5e4afdb79afe295e97a67985993a7aecb9403a6c56b39d4b35c757d30/sarah_lowres-101.jpg" data-mid="172336743" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38c976f5e4afdb79afe295e97a67985993a7aecb9403a6c56b39d4b35c757d30/sarah_lowres-101.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66c8fc28ba6f6322d6b99c70829746721c14bd9caeaf28cb0b9d71147338e940/sarah_lowres-104.jpg" data-mid="172336745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66c8fc28ba6f6322d6b99c70829746721c14bd9caeaf28cb0b9d71147338e940/sarah_lowres-104.jpg" /> The work Upside Down River is drawn from the experience of walking along and swimming in the Birrarung (Yarra) river during the Victorian lockdowns of 2021.&nbsp; The fresco skins are made on a purpose-built wall and then waxed to reveal the sedimentary like crazing that emerges in the curing process when the lime-based render re-sequesters the carbon that was driven off during slaking.&nbsp; In this sense the stone skin evokes the idea of breathing, along with the continual movement of moisture through the wall.&nbsp; Swathes of umber dyed muslin evoke the suspended clay of the upside-down river, and the accretion of grit on the linen circle beneath references both the history of landscape painting and the continual movement of silt in the formation and disintegration of land and water.&nbsp; When the grit is collected and reground into the body of the new fresco skin, the cycle will begin again. The hexagonal form of the installation recalls the radial basalt columns that typify the geological formation local to the area. The work will continue to shed and change each time it is moved, just as the river swells and subsides in response to the season.&nbsp; – Sarah Tomasetti, 2023 https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/From-Balpatta-2022-23 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 07:12:03 +0000 Sarah Tomasetti https://sarahtomasetti.com.au/From-Balpatta-2022-23 From Balpatta 2022-23 Phd Completion Viewing RMIT University, Melbourne <img width="4724" height="1976" width_o="4724" height_o="1976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2d48dbf63d1ec08f20a9cc177df9412e08d4e04af14b0b3b993b13613d29f10/sarah_tomasetti_5panel_highres-2.jpg" data-mid="172338837" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2d48dbf63d1ec08f20a9cc177df9412e08d4e04af14b0b3b993b13613d29f10/sarah_tomasetti_5panel_highres-2.jpg" /> <img width="4724" height="3149" width_o="4724" height_o="3149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/663e7d95d0bb215d9573b3d78f0467dcb6ec3fc5b51d3a329204d6923996cd33/sarah_tomasetti_phd_show_highres-70.jpg" data-mid="172339079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/663e7d95d0bb215d9573b3d78f0467dcb6ec3fc5b51d3a329204d6923996cd33/sarah_tomasetti_phd_show_highres-70.jpg" /> <img width="4724" height="3149" width_o="4724" height_o="3149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fb720e4e3974756db1af5e9890f8245422d442a2a21b034978c2f55bc49533a/sarah_tomasetti_phd_show_highres-65.jpg" data-mid="172339080" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7fb720e4e3974756db1af5e9890f8245422d442a2a21b034978c2f55bc49533a/sarah_tomasetti_phd_show_highres-65.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1327" width_o="2000" height_o="1327" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37411972d71f70e1de48e4638d84369c4c4f4dee42ed4d8052d41270b49dacf2/sarahtomasetti_november2022_lowres-57.jpg" data-mid="173634793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37411972d71f70e1de48e4638d84369c4c4f4dee42ed4d8052d41270b49dacf2/sarahtomasetti_november2022_lowres-57.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b393616c622bb8423a96132f60670faf6085e1882c9a059cf3018509f91554ce/sarahtomasetti_november2022_lowres-89.jpg" data-mid="173634791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b393616c622bb8423a96132f60670faf6085e1882c9a059cf3018509f91554ce/sarahtomasetti_november2022_lowres-89.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8be905ad6f0f11b4dacd8f61c7ebdcfc9f000f88e5e6387b3560c43b9f59356a/sarahtomasetti_november2022_lowres-92.jpg" data-mid="173634792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8be905ad6f0f11b4dacd8f61c7ebdcfc9f000f88e5e6387b3560c43b9f59356a/sarahtomasetti_november2022_lowres-92.jpg" /> <img width="4724" height="3149" width_o="4724" height_o="3149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28ffc9fc607b070e25a4a59363658eb46870d7de7f0847275bdc79b824374048/sarahtomasetti_november2022_highres-65.jpg" data-mid="173634842" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28ffc9fc607b070e25a4a59363658eb46870d7de7f0847275bdc79b824374048/sarahtomasetti_november2022_highres-65.jpg" /> <img width="4724" height="3149" width_o="4724" height_o="3149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e97e935a51da0be6c924b7e3898b72526db6fcd861f869891b70ec046dcebb0/sarahtomasetti_november2022_highres-51.jpg" data-mid="173634844" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e97e935a51da0be6c924b7e3898b72526db6fcd861f869891b70ec046dcebb0/sarahtomasetti_november2022_highres-51.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89e10bbf112c6687680a2a6d0ab11e651e390a85407f7aed70ec8ace177acde4/sarahtomasetti_november2022_lowres-56.jpg" data-mid="173634800" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89e10bbf112c6687680a2a6d0ab11e651e390a85407f7aed70ec8ace177acde4/sarahtomasetti_november2022_lowres-56.jpg" /> PhD Completion Viewing From Balpatta, 2022 - 2023 These five banners were sprayed with pigmented water after the plaster was laid, which slowed the rate of curing and allowed for whites made of lime putty and marble dust to adhere in relief.&nbsp; Snow in shadow is applied with latte di calce, tinted with cerulean pigment, whilst rock faces are indicated through the excavation of the surface with a flat blade and subsequent staining of those areas with sprayed pigment. Thus, the topographical imagery is produced through a series of physical engagements with the materiality of the fresco skin, other than the customary brushing of marks.&nbsp; The cloth emerging at the base of each banner is marked with the various residues of these engagements, and affords removal from the wall that provide&nbsp;d both support and absorption throughout the curing.&nbsp; The range depicted is a small section of the vast range that can be seen from a small stone temple on a hill in the north of Uttarakhand in India. – Sarah Tomasetti, 2023