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
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
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
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 2008Maurizio 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
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
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