Email: Asti.sherring@sl.nsw.gov.au
Qualification: 2026 - UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA
Doctor of Philosophy
2017 – 2024 UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA
PhD Arts and Design Faculty
2010-2012 MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
Master of Cultural Materials Conservation (Paper and Photographs)
2011 MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
Post Graduate Certificate in Photographic Conservation
2005-2009 SYDNEY UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours)
Asti Sherring is an early-career scholar (University of Canberra) and an honorary senior lecturer at the Humanities Research Centre (Australian National University). She has completed a Bachelor of Media Arts (Honours) from Sydney University, Masters of Materials Conservation at Melbourne University of Melbourne, and holds a PhD from the University of Canberra.
Asti's current role is Co-ordinator, Collection Strategy at the State Library of New South Wales. Asti has previously held positions as Time-based media consultant at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Senior Time-based art conservator at The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Asti was the manager of Changeable and Digital Collections at the National Museum of Australia. Asti's practice addresses conservation as an enabler for social and cultural change and participates in global discourses to interrogate materials-based approaches to art and cultural heritage. Her anti-colonial practice investigates the transmission of embodied knowledge systems through data and digital technologies.
2026. ASTI SHERRING, SPEAKING WITH-TIME: THE CONSERVATOR'S ENTANGLED POSITION IN TIME-BASED ART CONSERVATION - https://doi.org/10.26191/wfvk-0e80
2024, ASTI SHERRING, EMBRACING HUMANNESS IN CULTURAL MATERIALS CONSERVATION: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS ON ETHICS, VALUES AND THE FUTURE, AICCM BULLETIN, https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2024.2312755
2021, EDITOR, ASTI SHERRING AND AMANDA PAGLIARINO, AICCM BULLETIN - TIME-BASED ART SPECIAL EDITION, VOLUME 42.1, DEC 2021 DON’T YOU THINK IT’S TIME REFLECTING ON TIME-BASED MEDIA ART https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2021.2014647
2021, ASTI SHERRING, MAR CRUZ AND NICOLE TSE, EXPLORING THE OUTLANDS: A CASE-STUDY ON THE CONSERVATION INSTALLATION AND ARTIST INTERVIEW OF DAVID HAINES AND JOYCE HINTERDING’S TIME-BASED ART INSTALLATION, AICCM BULLETIN, VOLUME 42, ISSUE 1 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2021.1982540
2021, ASTI SHERRING & REBECCA BARNOTT-CLEMENT, ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES TIME-BASED ART TOOL KIT: PRACTICAL RESOURCES FOR THE DOCUMENTATION AND PRESERVATION OF TIME-BASED ARTWORKS, AICCM BULLETIN, VOLUME 42, ISSUE 1 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2021.1993631
2020, ASTI SHERRING, DIVERGENT CONSERVATION: CULTURAL SECTOR OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF TIME-BASED ART CONSERVATION IN AUSTRALASIA, AICCM BULLETIN DOI:10.1080/10344233.2020.1809907
2020 ALISON WAIN & ASTI SHERRING, CHANGEABILITY, VARIABILITY, AND MALLEABILITY: SHARING PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROLE OF CHANGE IN TIME-BASED ART AND UTILITARIAN MACHINERY, CONSERVATION, STUDIES IN CONSERVATION, DOI:10.1080/00393630.2020.1860672
2018, ASTI SHERRING, CAROLYN MURPHY & LISA CATT, WHAT IS THE OBJECT? IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING TIME-BASED ARTWORKS, AICCM BULLETIN, DOI: 10.1080/10344233.2018.1544341