exhibitions

paintings

5 – 22 May 2016

about the exhibition

Sarah Tomasetti is highly regarded for her luminous fresco paintings and installations. She has gained substantial knowledge and training in the traditional methods of fresco, using materials that have been employed since antiquity. The fresco surfaces that form the basis of her work are made on a wall constructed with lime mortar and then detached by means of a cloth embedded early in the process. On these surfaces she paints landscapes, rendered through successive transparent layers of staining and encaustic wax. These landscapes seek to explore our shifting relationship with the natural world in an atmosphere of contemporary unease, and are at once both fragile and contemplative. Sarah says of the work in this exhibition, “Influxus refers to flowing in, of water, of air, of light, of people. This body of work brings the notion of human journey to my longstanding interest in our relationship to wild and fragile landscapes, in particular the glacial regions currently under threat from global warming. These places are integral to the water cycle we rely on for life and yet we also experience them as beautiful, uninhabitable, inhospitable and other. In juxtaposing the glacial images with anonymous travellers drawn from various historic sources, I aim to explore an inner experience of estrangement via the outer experience of traversing the land.”

Sarah Tomasetti graduated from RMIT University and La Trobe University, Melbourne with a graduate diploma in Fine Art and Italian Studies in 1994. After graduating, Sarah undertook an internship in fresco painting at the Laboratorio per Affresco di Vainella in Italy and, on returning to Australia, completed a Masters in Fine Art at RMIT University. She has undertaken further residencies in China, Fiji, Italy and the USA and has numerous solo and group exhibitions to her name. Her work is represented in a number of private and public collections, both in Australia and overseas, including Artbank, Macquarie Bank, BHP Billiton and National Australia Bank.

exhibition images

  • 1. $2,000 Minya Peak morning – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 60cm

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  • 2. $2,500 Study for Minya Traverse – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 75cm

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  • 3. $4,500 Cloud Knot – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 110 x 70cm

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  • 4. $1,750 Study for Minya Peak – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 50cm diameter

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  • 5. $7,000 Gongga Shan – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 110 x 128cm

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  • 6. $3,200 Traverse frieze four (Sichuan Dream, Mian Gunslinger) – two panels, oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 99cm

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  • 7. $3,200 Traverse frieze five (Glacial melt, Dagu, Grandfather) – two panels, oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 99cm

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  • 8. $3,000 Traverse frieze six (Dagu Lake, Minya trek) – two panels, oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 91cm

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  • 9. $2,800 Traverse frieze two (Study for Tian Sian II, Boy with belt) – two panels, oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 87cm

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  • 10. $3,250 Source – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 50 x 70cm

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  • 11. $1,200 Gongga Shan from the air – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 30cm

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  • 12. $1,000 Minya dawn – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 20cm

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  • 13. $8,500 MinyaKonka Traverse – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 110 x 155cm

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  • 14. $3,500 Traverse frieze three (Travelling guard, Kyatrek, In the footsteps of Joseph Rock) –three panels, oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 122cm

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  • 15. $2,500 Traverse frieze one (Tian Shan from the air, Travelling Khamps) – two panels, oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 73cm

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  • 16. $4,500 Tian Shan II – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 86 x 100cm

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  • 17a-h. $280ea Surface of Last Scattering – 8 individual wall pieces, oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 7cm diameter each

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  • 18. $280 Man passing – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 7cm diameter

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  • 19. $280 Girl with hair ribbon – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 7cm diameter

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  • 20. $280 Man with plait – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 7cm diameter

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  • 21. $280 Standard bearer – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 7cm diameter

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  • 22. $3,800 Kyatrek Glacier as seen in 1920 – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 53 x 90cm

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  • 23. $1,200 Man and Child – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 30 x 30cm

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  • 24. $3,500 Family Group – oil and graphite on fresco plaster, 41 x 81cm

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