1. SARAH TOMASETTI – Curriculum Vitae
Born Melbourne, 1968
1999 Master of Arts in Fine Art by Research RMIT University
1995 Professional Qualification in `Tecnica Pittura Murale’
at the Laboratorio per Affresco di Vainella in Italy
1994 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, RMIT University
Graduate Diploma in Italian Studies, La Trobe University
1988 Bachelor of Fine Art, Drawing Major, Victoria College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Quiet/Disquiet, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Surface of Last Scattering, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2011 At the Edge of the Known World Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
2009 Liminal, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
2008 Penumbra, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Between Worlds, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Nostalgia, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery & Grafton Regional Gallery
2003 Temporality, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Sarah Tomasetti, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Iconic Imprints, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1996 The Love and Water Series, BMG Art, Adelaide
1994 Sarah Tomasetti, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Sarah Tomasetti, The Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Transforming Curator Jin Sha, Meijiang Gallery Tianjin, China
Shortlisted, Paul Guest Prize for Drawing, Bendigo Art Gallery
Shortlisted, John Leslie Prize for Landscape, Gippsland Art Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair, Beaver Galleries, Exhibition Buildings Melbourne
2013 Shortlisted, Fleurieu Prize for Landscape, South Australia
The Poetry of the Earth. Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing #3, New York
Studio School, New York
The 42nd
Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW
2012 Form and Paper, JCG at Beijing Art space, Beijing
Contemporary Australian Drawings, National Art School, London
Contemporary Australian Drawings, Langford 120, Melbourne
2011 Salon des Refuses, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney
Tattersalls Landscape Prize, Brisbane
2010 Something in the Air, 27 Gipps St, Richmond, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Drawings 1, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Magnetic Islands, Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne
Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2009 Text, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney
Same, same, but different. Kristian Pithie Gallery, Melbourne
ShortlistedThe Heysen Prize, The Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, SA
2005 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award Exhibition
2003 SixPlusOne, Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne
Nillumbik Art Prize, Nillumbik, VIC
2002 Drawings from the Collection, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
2. 2001 INSAP III, Palermo, Italy
1999 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
1998 RMIT Fine Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Hi/lo Exotico, Columbian Collaboration, Stop 22, Melbourne
1997 Retrospecta II, Pallas Society, Melbourne
1996 Galleria del Commune, Monterchi, Italy
1995 The Last Show, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Postgraduate Exhibition, Pitspace RMIT, Bundoora
ACAF 4, Exhibition Buildings Melbourne
Indwelling, Temple Studios, Melbourne
1990 The Drawing Show, Reflections Gallery, Melbourne
Open Door Exhibition, 52 Australian Painters, Sotheby’s Australia
Crowful, The Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
The York St Printmakers, York St Gallery, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Chartered Secretaries Australia
Macquarie Bank
National Australia Bank
Grafton Regional Gallery
Newcastle Regional Museum
Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home
Collection of Arthur Roe
Private collections in Australia, Spain, Italy and the USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sasha Grishin, It’s all in the technique. Canberra Times, April 1st
2013
Janet Mc Kenzie, Contemporary Australian Drawings, Macmillan 2012
Dan Rule, Around the Galleries, The Age April 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, La Trobe Street Gallery, 1999
GRANTS
2014 Artists in Schools Grant with Heather Hesterman and Spensley St Primary
School. Arts Victoria and the Victorian Education Department
RESIDENCIES and TRAVEL
2012 CHINA: With artists Hanna Kay and Suzanne Archer in preparation for
collaborative exhibition to tour Australia and China in 2015
1992 ITALY: Independent Study at the University per Stranieri, Perugia
USA: Bookbinding internship, University of Michigan
1990 FIJI: 6 month Artist-in-Residency with the Sociology Department of
Monash University