Sediments and Atmospheres
- Sarah Tomasetti

OPENING NIGHT  Tuesday 29 July 6pm to 8pm

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.

– Excerpt of exhibition statement by Sarah Tomasetti, 2025.
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