Mirabel FitzGerald

The strength of SCA’s program is the meshing of practical studio teaching with a theoretical and critical understanding of creative research/art practice. As self-directed projects and unconventional problem solving are integral to the ways in which visual artists work, the concept of student-centred research based learning fits well as the basis for SCA’s teaching methodology.

Biography

Mirabel FitzGerald is an artist primarily working with printmedia and works-on-paper. She was educated at the Byam Shaw School of Art (NDD), London, 1965 and received her Master of Fine Arts from COFA (UNSW), 1997.

Appointed in 1979 as lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, the visual arts faculty of the University of Sydney, Mirabel coordinated and taught in the Printmedia Studio until her retirement as Associate Professor in 2006.

FitzGerald has maintained an active studio practice, exhibiting continuously since 1965 in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe, the UK, Thailand and China. Her work is held in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and regional gallery and university collections.

An ongoing publishing project is based on an archive of her father, C.P.FitzGerald’s early 20th century photographs of China. These have been exhibited in China and Australia and reproduced in new editions of his books, some of which are translated into Chinese for the first time.

Selected Exhibitions

Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Sydney, 2007

Sydney Prints, 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2006

Sightseeing, War Memorial Art Gallery; Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, University of Sydney; and Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China, 2004

From North to South, The Long Gallery, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2001

A Studio in Paris: Australian Artists at the Cite 1967-2000 National Trust, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2001

No Muttering, Contemporary Print Exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales; Queensland College of Art, Griffith University; and Gosford Regional Gallery, 2000

Visible Histories, The Australian Technology Park, Sydney, 1997

Sons, National Gallery of Bangkok, Thailand, 1997

Awards & Grants

2005 Australia China Council Grant for photographic publication
2003/2004 Australia-China Council Grant for Translation and publication,
2001 University of Sydney Sesqui Research & Development Grant
1998 ArtsNSW Marketing Grant for Prague Print Triennial contribution
1997 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Grant & Pat Corrigan Artists Grant for Sons, The National Gallery of Bangkok, Thailand
1995 and 1993 Research Grant, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
1993 NSDF Research Grant, University of Sydney

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