| |  | 1948 | Born Melbourne, Australia | | 1976 | Diploma of Fine Arts, Tasmania School of Art, Hobart | | 1977-78 | Lived in Hydra, Greece | | 1978-80 | Illustrator, The Guardian, London, UK | | 1980 | Returned to Australia to work on the National Times and, after it’s much lamented demise, the Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney | | 1980-89 | Illustrator, The National Times, Sydney | | 1990-2000 | Illustrator, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney | | 2000-present | Illustrator, The Australian Financial Review, Sydney |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2009 | 'Air Water Earth City', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 'Recent Works', Sydney Grammar School, Sydney
| | 2008 | 'Heaven and Earth', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2006 | 'Pattern and Palimpsest', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2005 | 'Pattern', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 'Pattern', Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Hot Off The Press’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 2004 | ‘Here And There’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘Darkness at Noon’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | 2000 | ‘Mornington Peninsula Paintings’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
| | 1999 | ‘Two Cities 1996-1999’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1996 | ‘Recent Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1991 | Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
| | 1982 | -90 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1980 | Ago Gallery, Berlin, Germany
| | 1976 | Gallery One, Hobart
| | 1969 | Strines Gallery, Melbourne (as Michael York) |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2011 | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | 'Summer Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | 2008 | 'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Roylstan Street, Sydney
| | 'Stock Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Roylstan Street, Sydney
| | 2007 | 'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | ‘View of Maitland from the riverbank’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW
| | 2005 | 'End of Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Small Important Works’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘Summer Exhibition’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | 2002 | ‘Recent Work by Australian Galleries Artists’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘2002 Opening Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2000 | Melbourne Artfair, Melbourne
| | ‘Fine Paintings, Sculpture & Tapestry’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | 1999 | ‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1998 | ‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Australian Contemporary Art Fair 6, Melbourne
| | 1997 | ‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1987 | ‘Black and White Tradition’, Penrith Regional Art Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, NSW |
BibliographyCartooning in Australia, 1987 Clare, John; “Allusive Silhouettes”, Craft Arts Magazine, 1985 Clare, John; “The Parallel Universes of Michael Fitzjames” Australian Art Review, Issue 9, NSW, November 2005 – Feb 2006 Cook, Patrick; “The artist as hurler of knuckle sandwiches”, National Times on Sunday, 1986 Kenneally, Catherine; “The Black and White Tradition”, Catalogue essay, The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW, 1987 Lee, Phillip Burn, Ian; Michael Fitzjames Drawings, Stained Wattle Press, Sydney, 1986 Maloon, Terence; “Present ignored for pastiche panache”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1986 Marr, David; Catalogue essay, Mornington Peninsula Paintings, Australian Galeries and Michael Fitzjames, 2000 McClymont, Kate; “Matters of palettes and palate”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 2002 McCulloch, Alan revised & updated by McCulloch, Susan; Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1994 McCulloch, Alan; The Herald, Sydney, 1969 McInerney, Sally; “Drawing is still a case of dreaming on paper”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1983 News Link, The Mercury, TAS, 1976 "Plays in black and white", The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1984 Smee, Sebastian, “City Views”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1999 Smith, Bernard Smith, Terry, Heathcote, Christopher; Australian Painting 1788-2000, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001 Walter, Betsy, Belle Magazine, Sydney, 1983 CollectionsAustralian War Memorial, Canberra Deakin University, Melbourne
La Trobe Library, Melbourne
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
National Library of Australia, Canberra Penrith Regional Art Gallery & Lewers Bequest, Sydney
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Commissions| 1999 | Mural, Price Waterhouse building, Sydney | | 1996 | Mural, Bistro Moncur, Sydney | | 1988-89 | Billboards, Chifley Square, Sydney Commissioned by Leo Schofield, Sydney |
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