Sarah Tomasetti 

Dr Sarah Tomasetti is based in Naarm/Melbourne and specialises in medieval material technologies such as fresco, sgraffito and stucco lucido, that involve a correspondence with the matter-energy of slaked lime. Her doctoral research examines how the slow sensing of moisture, temperature and molecular interaction involved in these temporal processes can constitute a correspondence and entanglement with the living geological world through making.  

Using cloth to remove fresco skins from the wall, and encaustic wax to render these both fluid and sculptural, Tomasetti searches for new forms that explore flow, aggregation and instability in the landscape. Combining fieldwork with narrative research, Tomasetti is interested in the ways that cultural imaginaries of landforms, atmospheres and rivers inflect the ways humans imagine, traverse, worship and destroy more than human world.

Through collaboration and de-colonisation, she seeks to participate in the formation of new imaginaries that can address contemporary ecological conditions. She has exhibited widely across Australia and overseas with 21 solo and over 40 group exhibitions, and is currently a lecturer at RMIT University and co-lead of the Painting Studio.