Sandra Tinari creates contemporary chromatic artworks of the Australian landscape, shaped by geology, light and human presence.

Working across painting, sculpture and installations, her practice explores how colour, material and atmosphere can hold the experience of place. Grounded in field-based research, including aerial and observational photography of salt lakes, tidal flats and altered terrains, her work distils landscape into restrained chromatic atmospheres rather than fixed views.

Tinari brings an international perspective developed over more than two decades living and working across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Time spent in Italy, particularly in Carrara and the artistic town of Pietrasanta, established a lasting engagement with materiality and the sculptural language of stone, while the soft atmospheric light of southern Portugal informed her approach to colour, tone and spatial perception. It was during this period that her minimalist chromatic language began to take form.

Her practice expanded into installation and exhibition work in Dubai, where she worked within a dynamic cultural environment. This experience shaped her approach to scale, site and audience, developing a spatial sensibility that continues to underpin her work.

Now based in Western Australia, Tinari’s practice explores the relationship between landscape, material and perception — creating works that invite slower looking and a more embodied experience of place.