About

Alessia Zanetti (b. 1986, Italy) is an Eora/Sydney-based artist whose practice has evolved from large-scale commercial murals to oil painting on canvas. Her contemporary works merge the vivid colour and hyperreal clarity developed through her mural practice with a more expressive and gestural approach to painting.

Drawing on the eighteenth-century ceiling frescoes of Venice, where she previously lived, Zanetti employs an expressive visual language that moves between abstraction and figuration, using dramatic contrasts of light to heighten and intensify her palettes. Through this approach, Zanetti explores a contemporary sense of place within a hypermobile world, considering how local perception, embodied experience, and the immediate environment shape our perception of reality.

Curriculum Vitae

Born in Italy in 1986. Lives and works in Eora/Sydney.

Education

2026: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), National Art School, Sydney
2025: Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney

Group exhibitions

2026: Post-Grad Show, National Art School, Sydney
2026: Narratives of Body, Self and World, curated by Nina Maskiel and Tian Zhang, Scieppan Gallery, Sydney
2026: This Is Not Fantasy, BFA (Hons) exhibition, curated by Chelsea Lehmann, National Art School, Sydney
2025: Grad Show, curated by Katrina Cashman, National Art School, Sydney
2019: Aberration, curated by Apparition Media, Melbourne

Public art projects and commissions

2022: Public mural, Tarcutta Public School, commissioned by Wagga Wagga City Council
2022: Public mural, International Convention Centre Sydney, commissioned by No Vacancy Expo
2022: Public mural, Macquarie Fields Public School, commissioned by Macquarie Fields Public School
2022: Public mural, St Gabriel’s Catholic Primary School, Bexley, commissioned by St Gabriel’s Catholic Primary School
2021: Community mural, Headway Adult Development Program, Bankstown, commissioned by the City of Canterbury

Work experience

2021–present: Mural Artist and Co-founder, Donne Murals, Coogee, Sydney
2020–present: Commission artist
2017–2021: Mural Artist, Apparition Media, Darlinghurst, Sydney