Mary A. Fitzgerald

Mary A. Fitzgerald was born in Dublin where she lives and works. She studied Fine Art both at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and The National College of Art and Design where she received an honors degree in Fine Art in 1989 and a Master of Fine Art in 2004. Fitzgerald has been awarded both a Visual Arts Bursary, and Professional Development Grant from The Arts Council. She is a member Black Church Print Studio where she served as a board member for many years. Residency awards include, Clo Ceardlann, Donegal, Independent Studio Artists, Dublin and The Heinrich Boll Artists Residency. She is a lecturer in First Year Art & Design and Fine Art Print at NCAD. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.

Fitzgerald’s practice initially had a primary focus in the medium of printmaking. In recent years, however her work has expanded in methodology and interest to include painting, video and installation.

The artist’s work creates suggestions of place and object, but also incorporates private sensation and experience.

Fitzgerald’s iconography originates in the everyday, an eclectic gathering of images, daily observations and random things seen, tangled with memory and recall. These ‘new realities’ with their combination of personal narrative, of momentary and fleeting images, are brought together, transformed and communicated through the process of painting. The work plays with our perceptions of literal and emotional space, revealing the extent to which we can never be certain of what we know, see or feel.

The process of revealing and concealing the narrative, of scraping back creates a history and archaeology within each piece. Fitzgerald is also interested in how an images/objects meaning are transformed by their positioning together and placement in a public space. Each work enjoys both a tangible and a subliminal existence. The spaces and silences created in-between remain for the observer to explore.

Mary A. Fitzgerald became a member of the Olivier Cornet Gallery AGA group in January 2020.

Swoon, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin

Certain Distance, Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin

A Longer Walk Home Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin

New Work, Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin.

DRAWN, Original Print Gallery, Dublin

2021 

'On Paper', a Winter show co-curated with Jackie Ryan, Olivier Cornet Gallery.

'Resurfacing', end of Summer group show, 6-28 August 2020, Olivier Cornet Gallery.

'The Morphing Feminine', Bloomsday group show, 16 June - 30 July 2020, Olivier Cornet Gallery.

Grafik från Irland, Galleri Helle, Knudsen in Stockholm.

Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo.

Artworks Open Submission, Visual Carlow.

RHA Annual.

RHA Annual.

Steambox Galleries and Studios Exhibition.

COE 2017, Curated by Tom Morton, contributing editor, Frieze Magazine

Small Format, The Library Project, Dublin

No copy, No original, No center, No edge, Steambox, Dublin.

Enniskillen Open Visual Arts Festival.

Rosebud, The Library Project, Curated by Alison Pilkington and Cora Cummins (The Fold).

Artisterium 7, 7th TbilisiAnnual International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Curated by Magda Guruli.

The Palimpsest/Rianú Project at the Pearse Museum, Rathfarnham, Curated by Claire Halpin and Eoin Mac Lochlainn.